Critics of Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) and Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) say they can lean too far toward a brain-centric view — and they may not be wrong in some cases.

Our work and assessments need to likely sit in the middle and be able to help someone make sense of their specific mind-body behaviors

In the end, the key is to avoid the old mind–body split: develop processes that assess and address both, so we don’t repeat the dualistic mistakes of the past.