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Dr. Rachel Zoffness is a UCSF pain and health psychologist and teaches pain management at UCSF, Stanford, and Dartmouth. Here are all our episodes together. Here is her excellent book, The Pain Management Workbook. Here's her piece on the Anxiety Contagion in Psychology Today.

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