Research Studies



Ashar YK, Gordon A, Schubiner H, et al. Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry. 2022;79(1):13–23. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.2669

In this study, Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) outperformed standard care in pain reduction at 1 month and 1 year timepoints in patients with a diagnosis of chronic primary back pain. Improvements in symptoms were correlated with changes in brain function as measured by fMRI scans.



Lumley MA, Schubiner H. Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy for Chronic Pain: Rationale, Principles and Techniques, Evidence, and Critical Review. Curr Rheumatol Rep. 2019 May 23;21(7):30. doi: 10.1007/s11926-019-0829-6. PMID: 31123837; PMCID: PMC7309024.

Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) has demonstrated efficacy in treating fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic pelvic pain, and other medically unexplained symptoms.



Maroti D, Ek J, Widlund RM, Schubiner H, Lumley MA, Lilliengren P, Bileviciute-Ljungar I, Ljótsson B, Johansson R. Internet-Administered Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy for Somatic Symptom Disorder With Centralized Symptoms: A Preliminary Efficacy Trial. Front Psychiatry. 2021 Feb 12;12:620359. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.620359. PMID: 33679478; PMCID: PMC7928393.

Telehealth was found to be an effective format for providing EAET to patients with somatic symptoms.