Arthritis has much to do with social and sexual relationships and “attachments.”

In the words of…

Jack George Thompson, The Psychology of Emotions, 1988, “Clinicians have reported numerous cases where the appearance and disappearance of rheumatoid arthritis symptoms clearly paralleled emotional stresses in the patients’ everyday life. For example, Ludwig (1967) noted that one female patient’s arthritis symptoms recurred on the anniversaries of the death of loved ones and also after expressing anger toward her (living) husband and mother.”

William Glasser, M.D., Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom, 1998, “My experience counseling people who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis is that they have very frustrating personal relationships, often blatantly unsatisfying marriages that they are trying to preserve at all costs. They cannot risk angering or even depressing because doing so might impair their ability to keep up their side of the relationship and maybe lose it.”

An arthritis patient often has a false sense of independence.

In the words of…

Helen Flanders Dunbar, M.D., Med.Sc.D., Ph.D., Emotions and Bodily Changes: A Survey of Literature on Psychosomatic Interrelationships 1910-1953, Fourth Edition, 1935, 1954, “A precarious balance of aggression and dependency is established [in cases of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis] and when this balance is upset, the joints assume the burden by compromise. An over-charge of aggression is controlled by an inadequate ego through self-destructive allocation to the mobile structures of the soma. Relative superego placation is achieved through the feeling of painful attrition and through the feeling of controlled physical outbreaks: the pathologically strong passive erotic needs of the individual are gratified by the attention of doctors, nurses, and masseurs. […] A chronic physical affliction has replaced a chronic psycho-social maladjustment.”

Self-restriction and control, and self-sacrifice and “selfless service” are other attributes of an arthritic personality.

In the words of…

Adelaide Johnson, M.D., Louis B. Shapiro, M.D., & Franz Alexander, M.D., “Preliminary Report on a Psychosomatic Study of Rheumatoid Arthritis,” Psychosomatic Medicine, Sept.-Oct. 1947, “With few exceptions the cases show an excessive masochistic need to do for others, which serve both as a discharge of the hostility and as a denial of their own extreme demands.”

Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) called arthritis “a disease of attachment,” and further defined it as “magnetic bonding” and “centrifugal energy locked up in the joints.”

Adano explained …

“Arthritic body language reveals a grasping, a holding on. Attachment stops the free energy flow and causes magnetic bonding at the joints through the body’s calcium mechanism. An arthritic person lactates too much. Women are more prone to arthritis because they lactate more than men. Arthritics want to kick to release magnetic bonding.”

“The arthritic has self-pity. He craves calcium, but he needs iron for IRON WILL.”

“Arthritis is a result of lactic and uric acid accumulations, largely from a meat-eating diet, and apple juice helps to dissolve these. Eliminating meat-eating and just taking fish and eggs in the evening is a step toward its cure.”

“Centrifugal energy locked in the joints is magnetic bonding, which is attachment. Elevate the joints to free centrifugal energy. Egotists have a lot of rectal gas. They have to stand up and be very rectal. A burp is ingoing centripetal energy. A hiccough is neutral – a frustrated burp. A fart, or rectal release, is outgoing centrifugal energy. Ego cannot be sent out without becoming attached to what you direct it at. Ego is centrifugal energy, and ingo is centripetal energy. Ego gets stuck (bonded) in the joints. Ingo gets stuck in the bellies of the muscles.”

70 percent of women with rheumatoid arthritis go into remission DURING pregnancy, and a smaller percentage stay in remission AFTER pregnancy.

In the words of…

John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders, 2006, “Anyone studying psychosomatic disorders is bound to be impressed by the powerful influence of childhood experiences. In his work on RA [rheumatoid arthritis], Alexander repeatedly finds a strong, domineering, demanding mother and a compliant father, leading to fear of the mother coupled with dependence on her and an unexpressed desire to rebel. Once more my experience would suggest a small change: fear of and dependence on the mother leading to unconscious rage at her.”