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| #1 | 9/26/2019 | Virtual Therapy: The Future of Health is Here (Eric Silver) As technology constantly improves, it continues to disrupt every industry. Therapy is no different. How will technology affect the massive mental health category? |
| #2 | 5/27/2014 | How we treat is more important than the treatment!
(Lewis Mehl-Madrona) The way we relate to people is more important than what we do in both medicine and psychiatry. Randomized, clinical trials of the drug, citalopram, for geriatric depression, for example, showed that where a patient got treated mattered more than what drug they received. The response rate to citalopram varied from 16% to 82% among 15 hospitals. The time is nigh to improve the human elements in what we do be more helpful.2  |
| #3 | 4/26/2014 | The Price of ADHD Business (Frank J. Granett R.ph.) The Price of ADHD Business focuses on the outdated assessment and treatment process in children for behavioral conditions during the past 40 years. The new business model involves ruling out underlying nutritional, physiological and environmental risk factors prior to premature drug therapy. The symptoms of ADHD are real and can be uncovered as described in Over Medicating Our Youth and The American Epidemic. |
| #4 | 9/1/2013 | Avatars and Hearing Voices Therapy
(Lewis Mehl-Madrona) Recently we've learned about a computer assisted process for dialogue with disembodied, persecutory voices. In this process, developed by Dr. Julian Leff, a psychiatrist at University College, London, voice hearers pick a sound for their voice and a face which becomes an avatar on the computer screen. Then the facilitator helps them to dialogue with the avatar to oppose it. The results are very impressive.1 |
| #5 | 4/22/2013 | To Do and Not To Be (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) I reflect upon the importance of doing, what is called behavioral activation. In order to change, we need to do things differently, and not just think about doing things differently. Unfortunately, conventional medicine has supported a narrative which tells us that we do not have to make an effort to change our behavior, so people who are depressed or anxious don't believe they need to do anything. We need to change this. |
| #6 | 12/10/2012 | Pain, Part 2 (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) I continue to reflect upon chronic pain, beginning with some comments from my colleague, Peter Blum, who is a hypnotherapist and all around healer-guy in Woodstock, NY, and then leading into some brain science that shows that our brains are changed by the experience of pain and begin to link all kinds of unrelated experiences to that pain so that pain becomes multiply determined by more than just the sensations. |
| #7 | 12/3/2012 | Chronic Pain and Opiates (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) I describe my struggle with prescribing opiates for people in chronic pain. My observation has been that my patients on opiates don't seem to be in any less pain than my patients not on opiates, and sometimes they are more grumpy. I explore the literature and learn that prolonged opiate use sensitizes people to feel more pain and that it can also act as a neurotoxin producing neuropathic-like pain, so perhaps not a good idea |
| #8 | 2/29/2012 | Day 7 of the Australian Journey 2012 (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) Today is Day 7 of the Australian journey 2012. We are on Boole Poole in the Lake District of Gippsland. Our sweat lodge ceremony had been rained out the day before, so we prepared to do the ceremony as soon as the rain stopped which happened around 8am. I've written about sweat lodge before, as have others, most notably Bucko, author of The Lakota Sweat Lodge. It was a wonderful experience and then we hear crocodile tales. |
| #9 | 2/27/2012 | Day 4 of the Australian Journey 2012 (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) Day 4 of the Australian Journey finds us in Warburton with Auntie Jennie, an aboriginal elder from Queensland. I discuss the workshop we did together and explore further the concepts that integrate indigenous theories of mind and mental health with the Hearing Voices movement, showing that its founders were thinking indigenously as they approached voices, which appears much more effective than the biomedical approach. |
| #10 | 11/7/2011 | MIRACLES ARE MADE: A Real Life Guide to Autism by Lynette Louise/My Review
(Tsara Shelton) In this book,global autism expert, author and mom (mine!) Lynette Louise shares with surprising honesty and humor the many mistakes and learning's that came with guiding three of my four autistic brothers off the spectrum of autism. As an expert she now travels the globe teaching play therapy, family dynamics and neurofeedback to families struggling to understand autism. She writes with passion, understanding and honesty.1 |
| #11 | 3/15/2011 | More Indigenous Similarities Despite Differences -- Day 6 of the Australian Journey
(Lewis Mehl-Madrona) This is Day 6 of the Australian cross-cultural mental health exchange journey. Today we all experienced a form of healing used in the Northern Territories called "burning". They correct usage appears to be, "I burned her and she got well." One doesn't actually get burned, but palm bark is ceremonially placed in the area of an injury or sickness after having been made warm in a fire, accompanied by touch therapy and prayer.1 |
| #12 | 3/13/2011 | Eqalitarian Healing: or What can we Learn from Vygotsky (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) Vygotskyan ideas are useful to explain a concept my colleagues and I are developing for egalitarian healing. We are working to undermine the expert professional/defective client model and to put those who help people and those who are helped on a more equal footing. Vygotskyan theory helps us understand how to do this. Vygotsky describes a More Knowledgeable Other concept in which this Other can teach learner missing skills |
| #13 | 1/18/2011 | Clinic Restructuring (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) I work part-time in a community mental health center in New York. Recently New York's Office of Mental Health has restructured clinical services. I write about what that has meant for quality of care, which inevitably goes down. I argue that this is inevitable in a "fee-for-service" system. I argue that the alternative is to pay physicians to care for panels of people and to do the best job as they see fit for these people. |
| #14 | 8/15/2010 | Psychiatrists in Community Mental Health
(Lewis Mehl-Madrona) This article explores the role of the psychiatrist in community mental health. I find myself working in this setting and realizing that almost everyone sees my role as the writing of prescriptions. Medication has become the core of community mental health with twice monthly, 25 minute "therapy" visits. I ask how psychiatrists working in such settings can push back. How can we reclaim psychiatry as the medicine of the soul?1 |
| #15 | 7/29/2010 | Documentary film OPERATION: Emotional Freedom offers "The Answer" for treating veterans with PTSD (Joan Brunwasser) This is the first feature-length documentary on energy psychology and along with featuring many of the preeminent practitioners in EP including Gary Craig, the founder of EFT and Carol Look, PhD the film is being sold and shown worldwide in over 30 countries. On July 21st the film was included in a presentation to the House of Representatives Committee on Veterans' Affairs. |
| #16 | 7/8/2010 | Trauma, Health and Neurofeedback
(Vidya Bolz) summary of Dr. Robert Scaer's excellent video on his work on trauma and how it is stored in neural networks1 |
| #17 | 6/30/2010 | Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Addiction (Dr. Clare Albright) Is neurofeedback a helpful adjunct to drug and alcohol rehabilitation treatment? |
| #18 | 6/30/2010 | More on the Politics of Indian Identity
(Lewis Mehl-Madrona) Based upon comment on last weeks, "More Indian than Thou" essay, I continue my musings about the politics of Indian identity. I explore the fundamentalist response which argues that pure bloods are more Indian than mixed bloods and that non-status Indians have no business reading about, participating in, or even being interested in aboriginal culture. I argue that this would, in fact, allow the U.S. government to succeed.1 |
| #19 | 6/19/2010 | Developmental Neurodiversity Association (Raymond Andrews) One man's experiences as neurodivergent leading him to get involved in the Neurodiversity Movement by starting a nonprofit to help others like himself. |
| #20 | 6/3/2010 | The Vibration That Heals: From Verbal First Aid to the Power of Pure Music (Judith Acosta) The research is being conducted and the evidence is growing rapidly. Sound--not only moves us emotionally, but affects us at a profound, preconscious, cellular level. |
| #21 | 5/23/2010 | The Man Who Revolutionizes Psychoanalytical Therapy - interview with Luca Bosurgi (Luca Bosurgi DHyp, LCCH, MBSCH) Luca Bosurgi, a defining voice in the emerging field of mind-spirit therapy, transforms psychoanalysis to spritual evolution. He has developed an original mind coaching technique: The CognitiveOS Hypnosis. For the first time he has agreed to talk about the power of the CognitiveOS Hypnosis and why it's the next step in psychoanalytical therapy. - By Nadien Aurel |
| #22 | 5/13/2010 | Will Neurofeedback Help with Migraines? (Dr. Clare Albright) Will neurofeedback help with migraines? |
| #23 | 5/10/2010 | Coyote Healing Excerpt from Chapter 4, The Medicine Wheel (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) This is an excerpt from my book, Coyote Healing: Miracles from Native America. It's about the medicine wheel. |
| #24 | 4/16/2010 | How a Neurofeedback Session Works (Dr. Clare Albright) What happens in a neurofeedback session? |
| #25 | 3/17/2010 | Using Neurofeedback for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia (Dr. Clare Albright) Did you know that behind disorders such as Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia can be an undiagnosed brain injury? Can neurofeedback therapy make a difference with this hidden problem? |
| #26 | 3/4/2010 | Neurofeedback, Dyslexia, and Learning Disabilities (Dr. Clare Albright) Is neurofeedback training helpful for dyslexia and learning disabilities? |
| #27 | 2/15/2010 | Treatment Programs -" Do they work? (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) we consider the question of treatment -" does it work? Treatment is a billion dollar industry in America. So many people go for treatment and so many experts purport to tell people how to reform. The question -" does it work? Does treatment actually help anyone? |
| #28 | 2/12/2010 | The Miracle of Peacefulness (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) Unfortunately, miracles cannot be guaranteed or produced on demand. What is more certain is our ability to cultivate a sense of peacefulness and meaning even in the face of illness. This is miraculous in itself given today's world and medical culture. So many people sit namelessly, faceless and alone on nursing home floors, passing the time before death. |
| #29 | 2/6/2010 | How Neurofeedback Therapy Can Help Athletes Reach Peak Performance Levels (Dr. Clare Albright) Can neurofeedback help athletes to reach peak performance levels? |
| #30 | 12/2/2009 | Neurofeedback and Ayahuasca: A More Effective Program for Personal Growth (Lincoln Stoller) Modern neurofeedback therapy is compared with the experience and goals of the traditional ayahuasca ceremony. A program of conducting neurofeedback training in conjunction with the ayahuasca ceremony is described. It's argued that such a combination enhances the goals of each program by providing better preparation and post-training support. |
