The Way Out: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Heal Chronic Pain

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The Way Out offers a wonderfully clear and compelling combination of personal experience and the latest breakthroughs in brain science to show how to reduce chronic pain. Beautifully written - a transformation that will affect both you and those with whom you share your life. Mark Williams, emeritus professor of clinical psychology, University of Oxford, coauthor of Mindfulness The University of Colorado-Boulder recently conducted a large randomized controlled study on PRT, and the results are remarkable. By the end of the study, the majority of patients were pain-free or nearly pain-free. What’s more, these dramatic changes held up over time. With straightforward and practical wisdom, The Way Out presents a sophisticated yet simple approach to understanding and healing chronic pain—an approach grounded in advanced science and proven clinical experience.”

Desperate pain sufferers are told again and again that there is no cure for chronic pain. Alan Gordon, a psychotherapist and the founder of the Pain Psychology Center in Los Angeles, was in grad school when he started experiencing chronic pain and it completely derailed his life. He saw multiple doctors and received many diagnoses, but none of the medical treatments helped. Frustrated with conventional pain management, he developed Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a mind-body protocol that eliminated his own chronic pain and has transformed the lives of thousands of his patients.To use a metaphor from the book, your job is to play Toto pulling the curtain on the Wizard of Oz. Chronic pain is the huge head, the bombastic noise, the jets of steam. Accepting that it's the confused and overprotective brain amounts to revealing that neuroplastic pain is really a little man pulling levers and pushing buttons, making you think he's something he's not. Alan Gordon, a psychotherapist and the founder of the Pain Psychology Center in Los Angeles, was in grad school when he started experiencing chronic pain and it completely derailed his life. He saw multiple doctors and received many diagnoses, but none of the medical treatments helped. Frustrated with conventional pain management, he developed Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a mind-body protocol that eliminated his own chronic pain and has transformed the lives of thousands of his patients. At long last, a successful treatment for chronic, disabling pain. The Way Out provides valuable information about the ailment of pain, and many helpful suggestions on how to heal.” PRT is rooted in neuroscience, which has shown that while chronic pain feels like it’s coming from the body, in most cases it’s generated by misfiring pain circuits in the brain. PRT is a system of psychological techniques that rewires the brain to break out of the cycle of chronic pain. Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv’s book, The Way Out, is now available. The Way Out introduces a new approach to healing, shown in a large scientific study to be the most effective treatment for overcoming chronic pain.

Pain originated without injury (note: though some neuroplastic pain starts with an injury that won't stop hurting after the normal curing time has expired) Mark Williams, emeritus professor of clinical psychology, University of Oxford, coauthor of Mindfulness With or without the help of a therapist. Some people, using techniques offered in the book, make gradual progress on their own. Others need more guidance. From professionals. If you're a hard case in need of a therapist trained in PRT, it will cost you, bringing not neuroplastic but REAL pain to your wallet, but that's the American way. Alan Gordon writes with compassion, empathy, and a deep understanding of living with pain. Finding relief from his own suffering prompted him to find freedom for others. Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Change

The strain in pain lies mainly in the brain. This accessible, warm book is a re-minder of how you can learn to better control pain by learning to think differently about it.”

Quite possibly the most important pain book ever written. The Way Out will be the answer for millions who live in constant agony. There is healing without drugs or dangerous surgeries, and The Way Out is the book to help you finally find healing. As a former chronic pain sufferer, I know firsthand how every area of your life will improve when you are finally out of constant pain. Read this book, you deserve it.” The strain in pain lies mainly in the brain. This accessible, warm book is a re-minder of how you can learn to better control pain by learning to think differently about it. David Spiegel, MD, Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, coauthor of Trance and Treatment This is an amazing book. After completing DNRS, and being mostly recovered from Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, I am always trying to learn more about neuroplasticity, a concept that has improved my life 100%. This book can help anyone suffering from chronic pain, or any chronic health condition that doctors don’t understand. This book is so helpful to me because those of us who have healed from neuroplastic pain or other neuroplastic conditions (ibs, migraines, sibo, and nervous system dysregulation, lymbic system impairment, amygdala over activity, etc.) can have relapses and this book clearly and succinctly explains how to recover from that. Gordon explains in a very readable and even sometimes humorous style, what neuroplastic pain is and what to do about it.however, when the pain comes now, I am using the techniques from the book to minimize the pain, and it’s absolutely working. Trying to force it— doing all the right things of self compassion, sending the brain messages of safety, focusing on pleasant sensations, etc. only doing it with an underlying sense of desperation, and then