by Matthew Fleischman, PhD
“We’re not in Kansas anymore!” I thought to myself after hearing Dr. Eugene Peniston speak about brainwave therapy for alcoholism at The Menninger Foundation in Topeka in 1988. It was truly an over-the-rainbow idea that we could treat profound emotional and behavioral problems just by training individuals to modify their brainwaves. And in the twenty plus years since, I have remained committed to bringing this amazing treatment from Oz to the real world.
By any measure, positive client feedback, steady referrals and extensive records indicating client reported improvement suggest it has been a wonderful journey. I have learned some fantastic things and made the friendship of some outstanding colleagues. I’ve also had the pleasure of playing with some amazing toys: brain maps, symptom and QEEG-based protocols, LENS, HEG, SmartBrain Games, pirHEG and the Othmers’ ILF model.