The really frustrated ones are the individuals who have worked with me to decrease their migraines, stop panic attacks, stabilize their mood and who want to know why their physician never told them about this option.
I never have very good answers for them.
Today I read an article -- Parallel Universes -- from one of the most senior practitioners in the neurofeedback field, Siegfried Othmer. I want to share it with you -- not because it necessarily answers this question, but because it reflects just how frustrating all of us working in the field can get.
Please feel free to share what you know about neurofeedback with your friends, family, and colleagues. Perhaps we can stop the silence.
Parallel Universes and here's the opening paragraph...
Sometimes we who work with neurofeedback have the
impression of living in a parallel universe. We live with a view of
reality that is attaining increasing confirmation via formal studies
while at the same time becoming much more clinically effective, yet it
is a view that appears to be almost completely disconnected from
mainstream thinking. This state of affairs is not unfamiliar to people
who have studied Thomas Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific
Revolutions,” but it is still somewhat breathtaking to see how long the
split between the old and new paradigms can persist in the real world.
