The
combination of these two challenges in the phase domain appears to
cover the terrain of enhanced state regulation in considerable
generality, and it achieves this with remarkable efficiency compared to
our earlier methods. (We are concerned here with persistent or baseline
states, as distinct from the brain's response to challenges such as
reading, auditory processing, or other complex decoding task. The
latter may well call upon additional approaches such as those being
developed by Kirt Thornton.) Our approach has the virtue of fully
engaging the client in the process. The work in this paradigm also
seems more satisfying to the clinicians involved, once they unmoor
themselves from the earlier thinking. The work calls upon the
clinician's highest skills of observation and of engaging with clients.
The language and discourse, however, wrap largely around issues of
state regulation, not content as in psychotherapy. However, if one
observes the neurofeedback in the hands of a psychotherapist, one would
no longer be able to draw a dividing line between the psychotherapy and
the neurofeedback. It is time for insurance coding to catch up with the
reality. Psychotherapy is best conducted by taking physiology into
account.
Reprinted from eeginfo
Siegfried Othmer has been active in neurofeedback for more than twenty years, through instrumentation development, clinical research, and the conduct of professional training courses.
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