Description
The widespread manifestation of trauma and its impact on society has emerged as a major issue of our time. Its insidious effects are rampant and far reaching with respect to both mental and physical health and the repercussions are devastating at every level of human interaction. Most contemporary solutions are complex and costly and have limited impact. By exploring its history and impact in terms of physiology, electrophysiology, behavior, and psychological manifestations, this book seeks to offer a potential solution in the form of a rapidly developing but still little known technology of mind/computer interface known as neurofeedback. Alpha-Theta neurofeedback and its development through research is explored in detail in addition to a full consideration of its mechanism of action and implementation at the clinical level.
Chapters
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Tangled History of Understanding Trauma and Its Treatment
Chapter 2: Alpha Theta – A Brief History: The Other Half of Neurofeedback
Chapter 3: The Development of The Method and Theory: More Details Basic Concepts in Neurofeedback
Chapter 4: Contemporary Trauma Theory and AT Psychophysiology
Chapter 5: The Physiology of Trauma
Chapter 6: Neurophysiology, Electrophysiology and Trauma
Chapter 7: Using Neurofeedback With Trauma
Chapter 8: An Updated Integrated Theory From New Mind
Chapter 9: Confounds To NFB Training
Chapter 10: Assisting The Post Trauma Transpersonal and Spiritual Transformations
References
About the Author
RICHARD SOUTAR, Ph.D., BCN is a pioneer in the field of neurofeedback. He has published five books on the topic of neurofeedback as well as a number of invited chapters and research papers and conducted workshops at conferences and clinics in the U.S and Europe. As a former professor of psychology and sociology, he has taught at both the undergraduate and the graduate level as well as a being a clinician, director and business administrator of various clinics around the country for the past 25 years. He developed the first internet training course for neurofeedback certified by the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA) and has been a BCIA mentor for over 15 years. He has served as Secretary and President of the Neurofeedback Division of the Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB). He is Director of Research and Development for New Mind Technologies where he is developing equipment, brain mapping databases and assessment instruments and software programs for neurofeedback clinicians.
