Presented by The Friedman Brain Institute, This Might Hurt follows three chronic pain patients who have spent years searching for answers. Desperate for relief, they enter a new medical program — run by Dr. Howard Schubiner — that focuses on uncovering hidden causes of pain, and retraining their brains to switch the pain off. This new paradigm for diagnosis and treatment, Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), was found to be effective in several randomized trials and was listed as a “best practice” by the HHS’s task force to combat the opioid epidemic. This Might Hurt provides an intimate exploration and suggests a path to healing for millions.
 
Moderator: Xiaosi Gu, PhD, Professor, Psychiatry and Neuroscience and the Director of the Center for Computational Psychiatry
Panelists:
Jessica Robinson-Papp, MD, Professor, Dept. of Neurology,
Venetia Zachariou, PhD, Professor, Department Chair for Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics at Boston University
Marion Cunningham (director, producer, co-editor)
Kent Bassett (director, producer, editor)
 
Date: Thursday, February 2nd, 3pm
Location: In person: Hatch Auditorium (2nd floor of Guggenheim Pavilion)
Register: https://form.jotform.com/mssmneur0/this-might-hurt
Use the hashtag #ThisMightHurtFilm.