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on Apr 28, 2005

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging experiments are under way to try to uncover what makes individuals buy under some circumstances and not others. This is of great interest at a time when market doctrines are becoming organizing principles for human societies—effectively our new “civic religion.” Psychologists are of course involved in those experiments. A remarkable assumption […]

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on Apr 21, 2005

It is now estimated that some 17% of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are plagued with lingering mental health issues that are not being well met within the VA system. Even if the intention were there to address these issues, the capability is not—neither financially nor technically. As we know, the reaction of the […]

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on Apr 7, 2005

This week I thought I would simply share the data that I received from Leslie Hendrickson, and put together for the AAPB Poster. Collectively it makes the case for the Disregulation Model, in that it shows the systematic progression toward resolution of a wide variety of symptoms with a very limited set of protocols. In […]

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on Apr 7, 2005

During the pre-conference period I had a chance to attend Daniel Kuhn’s workshop on erasing symptoms fixated by traumatic dissociation, in particular PTSD. Kuhn’s presentation had appeal for me in various respects. First of all, he found his way to the method from an academic origin in psychoanalysis, so this work represents a significant departure […]

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on Mar 31, 2005

Last year Tom Allen wrote a newsletter for us on the issue of a licensed profession around the emerging field of applied psychophysiology. We have decided to take up this issue at the meeting of the Allied Professionals Section of the AAPB, and Tom Allen will be there to help lead the discussion. I am […]

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on Mar 24, 2005

The March 12 issue of Science News previews an article about to be published in Nature Neuroscience which proposes that autistic children actually experience intense emotional reactions when looking at faces, and hence avoid eye contact. In a controlled fMRI study comparing autistic children with normals, they found as expected that the autistic children averted […]