Hidden Within Us: A Radical New Understanding of the Mind-Body Connection

Hidden Within Us offers a pioneering understanding of the relationship between emotions and health, one rarely considered by physicians, patients, and research psychologists.

Nearly all mind-body research and publications focus on the emotional distress we consciously experience, with limited results in terms of understanding and treating medical illnesses. Hidden Within Us brings attention instead to the burden of emotions kept from our conscious awareness by repression.

Case histories and published evidence will convey to readers the rarely recognized value, and harm, of repression: Its value as an overlooked cornerstone of emotional resilience in many of us. Its harm in the unrecognized impact of repressed, unfelt emotions on our health, with relevance to many highly prevalent yet still inadequately explained and treated medical conditions.

Our ability to repress emotions is a vital gift of evolution, but, silently, the emotions we've repressed do persist and can affect our health. This recognition can lead to new pathways to understanding, treatment, and healing.

Dr. Mann is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at NY Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical College.

Dr. Mann is a physician, researcher, and author. He specializes in the management of hypertension at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical College, where he is a Professor of Clinical Medicine. He has published numerous papers in leading medicine, hypertension and psychology journals, and numerous book chapters. His recent book award-winning book, Hidden Within Us; a Radical New Understanding of the Mind-Body Connection (Literary Titan  Gold Book Award, June, 2023). He has also published two previous books: Healing Hypertension: A Revolutionary New Approach focuses on the mind-body connection in patients with hypertension. Hypertension and You: Old Drugs, New Drugs, and the Right Drugs for Your High Blood Pressure focuses on how best to individualize and optimize hypertension drug therapy.He has focused on the individualization of treatment for hypertension as a means of achieving blood pressure control in nearly all patients. And at a prestigious medical institution at the forefront of heart health and traditional medicine, he has been able to combine optimization of the medical treatment of hypertension with a revolutionary view concerning the mind-body connection that is reflected both in patient care and in his publications.