Doctors cannot solve psychosomatic symptoms because they treat lower back pain only as a physiological event, missing that sometimes (not always) lower back pain is a psychological event that has not achieved conscious understanding.

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Alain de Botton

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sometimes it's a psychological event that hasn't had a chance to to understand itself

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Alain de Botton on A THERAPEUTIC JOURNEYThe School of Life
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:13:11 PM

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