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Curing Chronic Pain: Dr. Cochran to read at Borders bookstoreClarksville, TN – Dr. Robert T. Cochran Jr. will be reading and signing copies of his new book, Curing Chronic Pain, on Saturday, April 4th at 3:00pm at Borders on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard in Clarksville.
In Understanding Chronic Pain, Cochran’s first book, he spoke with patients about their experience with unrelenting pain, developing a “thesis that chronic pain was a form of mental illness, and that by understanding and treating the mental illness one could often cure chronic pain.” Cochran saw links between chronic pain and issues such as childhood trauma, depression, substance abuse and bipolar disorder. In Curing Chronic Pain, that thesis has been developed with much more depth and refinement, and offers examples of dramatic cures obtained by the treatment of underlying mental illnesses, often with drugs not conventionally used for that purpose.Curing Chronic Pain uses anecdotes to illustrate specific experiences of pain. In explaining chronic pain, Cochran defines it as:
Q: You have been practicing medicine for over 40 years. How did you come to focus on chronic pain?
Q: How is Curing Chronic Pain different from your first book, Understanding Chronic Pain? Dr. Cochran: Understanding Chronic Pain was, in its way, a breakthrough book because it developed the thesis that chronic pain was a form of mental illness, and that by understanding and treating the mental illness one could often cure chronic pain. In Curing Chronic Pain, that thesis has been developed with much more depth and refinement, and I offer examples of dramatic cures obtained by the treatment of underlying mental illnesses, often with drugs not conventionally used for that purpose. Q: For many, you are their last hope when it comes to treating their chronic pain. How is your approach different from a more traditionally minded doctor? Q: What is your opinion regarding the use of addictive drugs such as opiates and stimulants? Dr. Cochran: I am an enthusiast for their use in the appropriate circumstances (and there are many). I have learned that the risk of addiction is less than I originally thought and, most remarkably, I have learned that the judicious and careful use of addictive drugs can not only diminish pain, it can cure mental illness. Q: What message would you like to convey in Curing Chronic Pain? Dr. Cochran:There is hope. It is a logical hope, and it is a scientific hope, and it is a realistic hope. It is the hope that derives from realization that the victim suffers a biochemical disease of the mind that can be cured with pharmacy. That is my message. Dr. Cochran is a graduate of Vanderbilt Medical School and completed residency in internal medicine and neurology at the University of Texas and Duke University. He founded a private medical practice in 1963 and had over the years treated thousands of patients with chronic pain. He is co-director of the Pain Center at Centennial Hospital in Nashville. He lives in Nashville with his wife, Donna. SectionsNewsTopicsbook signing, Books, BOrders, Curing Chronic Pain, Dr. Robert T. Cochran, Understanding Chronic Pain |
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