🧠 The Pain Output
Gordon explains that pain is not an input from the body, but an output from the brain based on perceived threat. Understanding this reverses the fear-pain cycle.
Pain Neuroscience & PRT Specialist
Alon Gordon is a leading psychotherapist specializing in the mechanisms of chronic pain. His work challenges traditional structural views of pain, focusing instead on how the brain constructs pain signals and how neuroplasticity can be harnessed to turn them off. He founded the Pain Psychology Center and developed Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT).
Gordon explains that pain is not an input from the body, but an output from the brain based on perceived threat. Understanding this reverses the fear-pain cycle.
Just as the brain learns pain, it can unlearn it. Gordon's protocols use somatic tracking and safety reappraisal to rewire neural pathways.
The brain predicts pain based on past experience. Gordon's work focuses on updating these predictive models with new, safe experiences.