The Psychology of Pain: Practical Insights for Recovery (Justin Barker, PsyD)

Like Mind, Like Body

Curable Inc.

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Have you ever wondered exactly how your mental health impacts physical pain—or found yourself unsure how to put that knowledge into practice? In this interview, Christie Uipi sits down with Dr. Justin Barker for a practical (and fun!) conversation about the core pillars of psychoanalytic healing and ways to actually use these principles in your recovery from chronic symptoms.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Like Mind, Like Body, where we explore healing from chronic pain,
0:13.3	symptoms and conditions using a mind-body approach. I'm Christy Weepy, psychotherapist and
0:19.3	founder of the Better Mind Center, where our team treats
0:22.4	chronic symptoms one-on-one. Today's episode is for anyone who's ever felt like psychological
0:27.9	insight is interesting, but not always useful, or like deep emotional work is important, but
0:34.5	hard to translate into everyday healing. In this conversation, we're going to
0:39.2	explore some of the foundational ideas behind psychoanalytic healing, things like defense
0:44.8	mechanisms, unconscious conflict, and what it actually means to feel your feelings. And we'll
0:50.8	try to do it in a way that's grounded, practical, and even a little playful.
0:55.9	Before I introduce our guest, a reminder that this podcast is brought to you by Curable,
1:01.0	a very different approach to healing chronic pain and symptoms.
1:05.0	Curable is an online program and guided app that focuses on the psychology of pain,
1:12.8	teaching you how to find permanent relief and reclaim your life. Curable helps you understand why you have pain, shows you it's possible to
1:19.2	recover, and leads you through science-back strategies that help you heal. If you've tried it all
1:25.2	and the pain remains, join more than a million people who have used curable to heal their symptoms and get started for free today.
1:34.2	Let's get into it.
1:36.1	Our guest today is someone who brings a rare combination of intellectual depth, clinical expertise, and personal lived experience to the work.
1:47.1	Dr. Justin Barker is a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice in Los Angeles, California. His practice focuses on the
1:52.9	treatment of chronic mind-body pain, as well as anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
1:58.8	In addition to individual therapy, Dr. Barker has led mind-body
2:02.3	healing groups in which people with mind-body pain learn and discuss how to heal in a supportive
2:07.6	environment. He is the co-author of the Mind-Body Workbook, Volume 2, and the co-creator of the
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