BF writings

Biofeedback Writings and Articles
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• Biofeedback FAQ

• Before you take Pills, try biofeedback

• An Optimal Functioning Approach to Biofeedback  an article published in the spring issue of the BIofeedback Magazine of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback.

• 1998 Keynote: Politics of Responsibility, Biofeedback & Self Regulation

• Introduction to Biofeedback for a Person Beginning to Receive Personal Training    An orientation to what to expect in going into personal biofeedback training  in terms of  learning, responsibility, follow up, why it works.

• Psychophysiological Stress Profiling    A description of a standard psychophyisiological stress profile,  with   design implementation  and  interpretation considerations

• Smile Biofeedback Intake & Orientation  An outline-script for a biofeedback intake aimed at teaching the patient how to take self responsibility for feelings and health, designed to offer hope and optimism and to produce immediate relief.

• Athletic Template Biofeedback for Skiing   A study presented at a Biofeedback Society of America Meeting on the use of pressure sensors to transduce pruessure into changes in audio pitch.  This describes a model of athletic training that is ripe for re-introduction with the new computer technologies.

• TransEvolutionary BF: Non-medical Biofeedback: (It's all non-medical)  a paper presented at the 1995 AAPB Association for Aplied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback meeting, on non-medical   applications of biofeedback,  including consciousness enhancement, personal growth, ergonomic, athletic  performance enhancement, mind brightening (to borrow a term from Tom Budzynski) and  the politics of personal information awareness and access

• KPEI: The Kall Positive Experience Inventory  The KPEI, Kall Positive Experience Inventory helps  identify varieties of positive  experience, so it is easier to remember or recognize past or current positive  experiences. It is used by therapists to help people remember specific images of  past positive events, which can be used for positive mental imagery, rather  than generic beach type scenes. It can  be used with guided imagery, even in  groups to help people recall past  positive experiences. I t can also be used  as a study tool to identify one's patterns of positive experiencing.

• Emotional Self Regulation and Facial Expression Muscle Measurement and Training. Some detailed discussion of Rob Kall's model of Positive Emotional Self regulation, smile anatomy, and uses of biofeedback and smiling in builidng positive emotional expression and positive experience skills.

      Originally published as a chapter in Jeffrey Cram's book,   Clinical Surface EMG Volume 2. and more recently reprinted in the book, Bioprovleniya, in Russian, co-edited by Mark Shtark and Rob Kall.

• Advocacy for Biofeedback...

• Alexispiritua; A counterpart to alexithymia and a role for biofeedback.
• Check out our BioPsy Webzine for loads of additional articles and writings on biofeedback
• Go to Biofeedback Central

started Feb 13, 1999