Deactivating Psychosomatic Symptoms

A Biopsychosocial Approach

Len Sperry, M.D., Ph.D., is Vice-Chair and Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He has published 28 professional books, including the 1999 publication, Cognitive Behavior Therapy of the DSM-IV Personality Disorders. Dr. Sperry is listed in the Who’s Who in America and Best Doctors in America, and is a recent recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Harry Levinson Award.

Working with a client who experiences mysterious attacks she thinks are either epilepsy or panic, Sperry displays the dual arts of razor-sharp interpretation and direct suggestion with a woman whose defenses seem at first to be impenetrable.