Unlearn Your Pain: The Science of Recovering from Chronic Pain, Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depression

Based on more than twenty years of clinical trials and practice, Unlearn Your Pain is a groundbreaking guide to reversing chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, and depression.

AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER

Migraines, headaches, back pain, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue, and a host of other chronic illnesses have caused hardship worldwide. For the past twenty years, Dr. Howard Schubiner has conducted clinical trials and authored more than 100 scientific papers to uncover the root cause of these in challenging illnesses. In Unlearn Your Pain, he shares in inspiring and step-by-step detail the program that has proven to be effective in reversing chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, and depression. For most people, the answers lie in the science of neuroplasticity, and this book details a revolutionary program that has saved thousands from a lifetime of misery and depression.

Using the latest research and mind-body practices all confirmed by clinical trials and studies, Dr. Schubiner leads readers to a new understanding of how the mind affects pain and physical and emotional health, and how we can live healthier and better lives.

Author: Howard MD Schubiner
Publisher: Open Field
Published: 05/26/2026
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.30w x 1.46d
ISBN: 9780593994368


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 05/04/2026

About the Author
Dr. Howard Schubiner is an internist, a pediatrician, a researcher, and an educator. He is a clinical professor at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He has played a major role in the development of innovative treatments for chronic pain and associated conditions. Dr. Schubiner has self-published two workbooks: the Unlearn Your Pain Workbook and the Unlearn Your Anxiety and Depression Workbook. He lives with his wife in the Detroit metropolitan area.