From: Lucas Darten (ljdarten_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 2001-04-13 03:51:50
>From: peterson_at_d...
>In the meantime, let me say that I think alcoholics and survivors of
>traumatic stress are the people who _most_ need to have a therapist on hand
>when they use EEG biofeedback in treating their problems, at least if
>you're talking about alpha-thetra biofeedback. That is because much of the
>healing process involves verbal processing of the mental events they
>experience during the session, and this work really requires a therapist.
><snip>
>
I have to agree with you here. From my wife going for feedback for ADD, I
have seen a glimpse of the complexity involved with it. And I can imagine
that for more serious problems it would be unwise, possibly even immoral, to
recommend that people treat themselves. Of course this is just my barely
educated perspective<G>.
>Probably the safest and simplest thing for
>"amateurs" to do with this equipment is to train alpha to enhance peak
>performance. Also, one could use some sort of theta-suppress, beta-enhance
>technique to improve atttention. Also, if the software is capable of
>showing a bilateral Mind-
>Mirror display of stacked bars, one could
>practice some of the techniques developed by Cade in England and discussed
>by Anna Wise in her book _the High Performance Mind_.
>
>From what I know of the first two, they seem pretty straightforward. IMHO
any average person with a little bit of research and reading, would have
little problem doing them effectively. I am not familiar with the last one
though.
This all also brings up a point that I have been thinking about. To
effectively market the machine I think we will need a good resource for
using the machine. We will eventually need a full set of documents that
fully explain everything from how to apply the electrodes to how the
different protocols work, does anyone know of any good preexisting sites
that have info along these lines, where our site can refer people to? I
would like to have a good set of links and/or tutorial style documents on
our site before the device is ready, if possible.
Lucas.
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