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Are you a brain in a body, or a body with a brain? What does the nervous system have to do with chronic pain? How do we 'debug' pain?Join Max as he explores the relationship between pain and insight. Featuring scientists, pioneers in somatic therapy, and those who have recovered from chronic pain.Max Shen is a pain researcher affiliated with MIT. He is also the creator of Debug Your Pain, a platform to teach skills in pain resolution.A production of Debug Your Pain. Read our latest at essays.debugyourpain.com essays.debugyourpain.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchAre you a brain in a body, or a body with a brain? What does the nervous system have to do with chronic pain? How do we 'debug' pain? Join Max as he explores the relationship between pain and insight. Featuring scientists, pioneers in somatic therapy, and those who have recovered from chronic pain.
Pain Points with Max Shen is hosted by Max Shen. The show has published 16 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Doug Tataryn on a Physiological Basis for Repression" (13 June 2026, 100 minutes), "Gay Hendricks on somatics, Sarno, and the Yes Breath" (11 June 2026, 58 minutes), and "Simon Cox on the Subtle Body" (21 May 2026, 107 minutes).
Pain Points with Max Shen publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 63 minutes across 16 episodes.
Booking probability for Pain Points with Max Shen is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Pain Points with Max Shen requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Pain Points with Max Shen's contact route on record: public web form.
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Max Shen hosts Pain Points with Max Shen, an education podcast with 16 episodes published.
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Pain Points with Max Shen
<p>Dr. Douglas J. Tataryn is a psychologist and researcher whose work spans hypnosis, emotion, chronic pain, meditation, and complementary medicine. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1991 from the...
Pain Points with Max Shen
<p>Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, somatic practitioner, and author of dozens of books including Conscious Loving and Conscious Breathing. After earning his PhD at Stanford and teaching psychology at the University of...
Pain Points with Max Shen
<p>Simon Cox is a scholar and practitioner whose work traces the history of the subtle body across Taoist, Tibetan, medical, alchemical, and Western esoteric traditions. </p><p>He studied history at Oxford, spent six...
Pain Points with Max Shen
<p></p><p></p><p>A couple of months ago, I gave a presentation the set point theory of chronic illness, it was an attempt to use a new language, the language of cybernetics to shift out of this mind body duality when...
Pain Points with Max Shen
<p>Elena Lake was a math major at MIT who later transitioned from her software engineering career into bodywork. We talk about her journey, and the role of perception in bodywork.</p><p>Episode Outline — Elena Lake...
Pain Points with Max Shen
<p></p><p>This past weekend, inspired by a recent preprint from Thomas Pollak, Mike Levin, et al, I gave a talk on how cybernetic models (predictive processing, dynamical systems, homeostasis/allostasis) are a hugely...
Pain Points with Max Shen
<p>We’ve known for decades about culture-bound syndromes that just seem so weird and only occur in a small subculture. Like men in South Central Asia who get the idea that they have semen loss and their semen loss is...
Pain Points with Max Shen
<p>If there is a sharp knife pressing into my hand, and let’s call it pain, if I resist, resist it, and hate it and want it gone, I stick the knife deeper in my hand.</p><p>Try to push it away, okay. Deeper. Now if I...
Pain Points with Max Shen
<p></p><p>In this episode of Pain Points, I’m speaking with David Chapman, a writer and thinker whose work on meaning, meta-rationality, and science has been the most important education I received outside of...
Pain Points with Max Shen
<p>In this episode of Pain Points, I’m speaking with Jozef Frucek, a dear mentor of mine and a pioneer in the world of movement.</p><p>He uses embodied cognition to combine ideas from Tai Chi, wrestling, and physical...
Pain Points with Max Shen
<p>“ We try to think about things from the perspective of the state itself. We too are a temporary metabolic pattern, and we have we have mental states and memories and goals and preferences and thoughts and so...
Pain Points with Max Shen
<p>Bren’s documentary is out! Watch here </p><p>More on health, movement, and becoming the whole collective intelligence you are at essays.debugyourpain.com</p><p><br/></p><p>00:00:00 Introduction — Movement Without...
Pain Points with Max Shen
<p>essays.debugyourpain.com</p><p><br/></p><p>## Timestamps</p><p>00:00:00 Introduction - The Coming Paradigm Change in Biology </p><p>00:02:00 The Biomedical Paradigm: Materialism, Reductionism, and Dualism...
Pain Points with Max Shen
<p></p><p>This is a 15-minute excerpt from a conversation I had with Chris Lakin</p><p></p><p>A few quotes:</p><p>Oftentimes people learn to do some self-loathing thing. And the consequence of that is you make yourself...
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Author & Practitioner of Happiness, Enlightenment and Love, The Hendricks Institute
Chair of the British Horseracing Authority, Okanagan Valley Wudang
Internist, Clinical Professor at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine
Professor of New Testament and Archaeology, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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