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WS2 The Use of Clinically Standardized Meditation with Biofeedback Training and Behavioral Interventions

Patricia Carrington, Ph.D.

Problems of compliance beset the practioner seeking to obtain physiological or behavioral change. Supplementing in-office training with a self-regulation technique is one option which can be helpful but only if that technique is highly self-reinforcing, requires minimal effort on the part of trainees, and is trouble free.

In 1979, under the aegis of the Medical Department of New York Telephone Company, Dr. Carrington developed her now widely used recorded method of meditation training, Clinically Standardized Meditation (CSM) . This technique adjusts flexibly to suit individual patient needs and lifestyles, shows high compliance and reports excellent user satisfaction. It has been used extensively in medical and organizational settings worldwide and is the method featured in Carrington’s new book which details the clinical use of the modern meditation techniques (The Book of Meditation, Element Books, Ltd., 1998)

Attendees at this workshop will have a chance to sample the CSM meditation method for themselves and learn how to apply it in clinical practice. Topics covered include indications and contraindications for the use of CSM; special problems encountered when teaching it to selected clinical populations; ways of varying the practice to suit individual needs; anticipation and handling of common problems encountered by trainees, and additional topics of special interest to clinicians and researchers.

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PS Optimizing Brain Balance with Nutritional Supplements: use of vitamins,

minerals, herbs, amino acids, and essential fatty acids to restore normal

brain chemistry for such conditions as anxiety, depression, ADD, and PMS

.Hyla Cass HCassMD@aol.com

WS2 Nutritional Approaches to Mental Health:

Hyla Cass HCassMD@aol.com

As we already know from the field of EEG diagnosis and treatment, disorders of mood, memory, and behavior often reflect underlying physical or metabolic problems, undetected and under-diagnosed by mainstream physicians. With a complementary medical approach, however, these imbalances can be successfully diagnosed and treated, using nutritional supplements such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs and natural hormones. This can be successfully combined with neurofeedback techniques, and even medication when appropriate, for optimal results.

Moreover, the decline of health vitality, and mental function with age is not inevitable. Nutrients and hormones can be used for anti-aging, rejuvenation, and optimal performance. In addition to the use of smart drugs and nutrients, levels of hormones, including DHEA, pregnenolone, testosterone, and growth hormone, in both men and women, can be measured and then supplemented accordingly.

This talk will outline my clinical approach to diagnosing and treating such imbalances and deficiencies.

Common Presenting Problems

" anxiety " fatigue " depression " impaired memory and concentration

" insomnia " sexual dysfunction or decreased interest " weight gain

Possible Underlying Causes:

" hypoglycemia, diabetes

" anemia

" food and chemical sensitivities

" hormone imbalance/deficiency (e.g. thyroid, estrogen, progesterone, adrenal)

" chronic fatigue syndrome, including Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus,

candida, parasites)

" toxicity (heavy metals, chemicals, metabolic wastes)

" deficiencies (vitamins, minerals, amino acids)

" malabsorption/poor digestion

Diagnosis:

" history -- questionnaire

" laboratory studies

Treatment:

" Diet: add or remove certain foods

" Exercise: including walking (aerobic), toning exercises, yoga, or tai chi

" Stress reduction techniques: meditation, yoga, biofeedback

" Nutritional supplements:

" Vitamins, minerals, herbs, enzymes, other co-factors

" Amino acids, especially phosphatidylserine and acetyl-l-carnitine

" Hormones: thyroid, adrenal, DHEA, pregnenolone, progesterone, estrogen, testosterone, melatonin, human growth hormone

Suggested Reading

Natural Remedies/Alternative Medicine:

" Hyla Cass, M.D., St. John's Wort: Nature's Blues Buster, N.Y.: Avery, 1998

and Kava: Nature's Answer to Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia: Prima, 1998

" James F. Balch and Phyllis A. Balch, Prescription for Nutritional Healing N.Y. :

Avery Publishing Group, Inc., 1990. ($16.95)

" Broda Barnes, Hypothyroidism, The Unsuspected Illness, Harper and Row, 1976

" The Burton Goldberg Group, Alternative Medicine, The Definitive Guide,

Guyallup, WA: Future Medicine Publishing, Inc., 1994. ($59.95)

" M. Murray, J. Pizzorno, Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, Prima, 1994

" Devi Nambudripad, Say Good-bye to Illness, 6714 Beach Blvd., Buena Park, CA,

90621: Delta Publishing, 1993 (714-523-8900)

" M. Rosenbaum, M. Susser, Solving the Puzzle of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

" William Crook, M.D.,The Yeast Connection, Professional Books

Women’s Health/Hormones:

" Marcus Laux and Christine Conrad, Natural Woman, Natural Menopause,

Harper Collins, 1997

" John Lee, M.D.,What your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause,

Warner Books, 1996

" Christiane Northrup, M.D., Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, Bantam, 1994

Anti-aging:

" William Regelson, M.D., The Superhormone Promise, Simon & Schuster, 1996

" Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman, Stop the Aging Clock, 1996

" Ronald Klatz, Grow Young with HGH, 1997

" Stephen Cherniske, The DHEA Breakthrough, Ballantine Books, 1997

" Jean Carper, Stop Aging Now!, Harper Collins, 1995

ADD/ADHD:

" John Taylor, Helping Your Hyperactive/Attention Deficit Child:

" Mary Ann Block: No More Ritalin:Treating ADHD Without Drugs

" †J. Reichenberg-Ullman & R. Ullman, Ritalin Free Kids

Brain Nutrients:

" C. Germano, J. Lombard The Brain Wellness Plan : Breakthrough Medical, Nutritional, and Immune-Boosting Therapies, 1997

" R. Hedaya, Understanding Biological Psychiatry , Norton, 1996

" W. Dean, J. Morgenthaler, Smart Drugs and Nutrients : How to Improve Your Memory and Increase Your Intelligence Using the Latest Discoveries in Neuroscience, 1991, and Smart Drugs II : The Next Gen

Biographical Data

Hyla Cass, M.D., is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, and the author of the best-selling St. John's Wort: Nature's Blues Buster (Avery, 1998) and Kava: Nature's Answer to Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia (Prima, 1998. Integrating nutritional medicine with psychiatry in her clinical practice, she has been treating patients successfully with a variety of supplements for many years. Her areas of expertise include stress reduction, women's health (including natural hormone therapy), and natural treatments for ADD, ADHD, addictions, anxiety disorders, and depression.

A noted speaker, consultant, and educator in the areas of complementary medicine, psychiatry, and personal growth, Dr. Cass is also a corporate and media consultant, and contributes to numerous books and journals. She has been quoted in many publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, and People Magazine, and has written for Psychiatric News," "Herbs for Health", "Natural Health", "Let's Live", and the "Journal of Longevity Research." A graduate of the University of Toronto School of Medicine, she interned at Los Angeles County - USC Medical Center, and completed a psychiatric residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA.

Steady State Evoked Potentials -

A New Channel for EEG Biofeedback?

Thomas F. Collura, Ph.D.

This talk will consider the basic mechanisms of steady-state visual and auditory evoked potentials, and explore their possible use as a biofeedback modality. When visual or auditory stimuli are presented at rates between 2 and 20 per second, the resulting evoked potentials can be easily measured in real time, and can be used to provide biofeedback information in any of a wide range of formats.

All that is necessary is to provide a controlled stimulus at a specific frequency and to perform appropriate filtering on the EEG, to provide a real-time measurement of the brain's response to the stimulus. By providing this information to the subject in real time, it is possible to create a biofeedback system in which the individual learns to self-regulate the brain's response to sensory stimulation. By judicious choice of stimulation and filtering frequencies, specific brain pathways and mechanisms can be measured, hence trained.

At the current time, this method has been explored in limited ways. Existing systems are applied primarily to the monitoring or assessment of attention, or to the development of brain-controlled systems. There has been limited study of evoked potential biofeedback as a training modality. A theoretical and practical rationale for pursuing this potentially fruitful area will be presented and described.

WS2 BrainMaster Practicum

Thomas F. Collura, Ph.D.

This workshop presents the practical side of using the BrainMaster EEG system, with an emphasis on biofeedback applications. The BrainMaster is an open-architecture, shareware hardware and software design that has grown steadily since 1995.

The project uses the internet as a

primary means to sharing technical and and applications information. A growing base of contributed software designs are available, providing a wide range of new capabilities.

The system is an extremely versatile, general- purpose EEG monitor with many types of sound, graphics, and biofeedback control features. It can be used for conventional biofeedback for clinical as well as peak-performance applications. It can also be configured for novel types of biofeedback, making it

useful for exploration and research studies.

The system also has an open programming interface that allows users to write add-on software in C, C++, Visual Basic, and Pascal. Examples of user-contributed

software will be shown.

The workshop will include tutorial demonstrations of the BrainMaster system on volunteer subjects, in a variety of applications. Participants will be walked through how to use the BrainMaster, add new trainees, set up screens and biofeedback protocols, and review EEG data. There will also be an introduction to the programming interface for writing third-party software.

Dr. Collura is a biomedical engineer with over 25 years of R&D experience in computer hardware and software, and digital EEGsystems. He is a consultant specializing in medical instrumentation design and development, and is the founder of the BrainMaster project.

PS: EFT: A Paradigm Shift: "We are on the Ground Floor of A Healing Highrise"

PS: Using EFT for Optimal Functioning

WS4: EFT 1 Foundational EFT

WS (all day) EFT 2 Advanced EFT

Gary Craig

P.O. Box 398

The Sea Ranch, CA 95497

ghcraig@mcn.org

707-785-2848 fax 707-785-2600

www.emofree.com

EFT: We are on the Ground Floor of a Healing High Rise

EFT Founder and Presenter: Gary H. Craig,

P.O. Box 398, The Sea Ranch, CA 95497

(707) 785-2848,

Emotional Freedom Techniques(tm)

http://www.emofree.com/free.htm

ghcraig@mcn.org

This hour long introduction to EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) will cover the theory and background behind this highly reliable healing procedure. You will see videotapes of actual cases interwoven in a dynamic presentation designed to acquaint you with one of the most dramatic healing discoveries of this century. This presentation also serves as an introduction to Gary Craig's workshops on February 7 (Foundational EFT: The Door to the new Healing High Rise) and February 10 (EFT: Advanced Procedures and the Art of Delivery).

Note: Gary Craig will send you a free hour long videotape displaying EFT in live sessions. You may wish to view it before the conference. You may choose between:

(1) "6 Days at the VA" which shows EFT being used to eliminate phobias, PTSD, intrusive thoughts, nightmares, addictive cravings and the like with our Vietnam Vets or

(2) "EFT Case Histories" which shows EFT being used to relieve a driving phobia, fear of mice & rats, chocolate cravings, rape trauma, shoulder pain, dyslexia and more.

You can order your tape off his web site at: http://www.emofree.com/free.htm

or call Gary Craig directly at: (707) 785-2848.

WS4 EFT: The Doorway to the new Healing High Rise

EFT Founder and Presenter: Gary H. Craig,

We are on the Ground Floor of a Healing High Rise and the "energy therapies" provide the elevator. They establish rapid and long lasting relief for almost every emotional issue and remove blocks to optimal performance. EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is an entryway into this fascinating field.

Please be advised that EFT's impressive successes are the result of a major paradigm shift in this field. It is a psychological version of acupuncture (very gentle and does not require the use of needles) and is likely to violate the beliefs of most attendees.

This workshop will start with a grounding in the basics of EFT that will be thorough enough to allow participants to immediately (and successfully) apply EFT to themselves and clients. The rest of the workshop will be experiential as the entire audience will apply EFT to their own issues (in the privacy of their own minds, if they prefer). We will address trauma, physical discomforts and addictive cravings. If time allows, we will also apply it to phobias, guilt, grief, depression, fear of public speaking or anything else the audience requests.

To review writeups of a wide variety of EFT Case Histories as performed by numerous EFT professionals visit http://www.emofree.com/case.htm.

WS full DAY EFT: Advanced Procedures and the Art of Delivery

EFT Founder and Presenter: Gary H. Craig

While EFT can be applied in a mechanical fashion with impressive results, even greater relief can be obtained by the artful delivery of these procedures. Volunteers from the audience will have the opportunity to work on any issue(s) they wish with Gary Craig, the founder of EFT. Even though personal privacy is completely respected in these live sessions, the volunteers will be able to experience the effects of EFT (even on lifelong, stubborn issues) while the audience will be able to ask questions about the details behind EFT and how it was applied. This is a rare interactive opportunity as the attendees will be able to "get behind the scenes" of one of the most fascinating discoveries of this century.

Attendance at the previous workshop, "EFT: the Doorway to the new Healing High Rise" on February 7 is highly recommended before attending this workshop. However, it is not required. A brief overview of the foundational concepts will be provided for newcomers at the opening.

Also Note: Gary Craig will send you a free hour long videotape displaying EFT in live sessions. You may wish to view it before the conference. See previous listing

What’s the Bottom Line?

Length: 20 Minutes

Mary Deits

Session: This talk is best suited for the Optimal Functioning meeting

Top performers give us a vision of the human potential possibilities. What are some of their characteristics that separate them from the average executive or performer? What effect do these characteristics have on the way we approach optimum performance work with them. Observations are based upon biofeedback and stress management sessions with top performers at the Canyon Ranch Spa in Tucson Arizona.

Mary Deits was Director of Biofeedback Services at Canyon Ranch for over 4 yrs. She worked with well-known corporate and subcabinet executives, as well as international entertainers. Currently she is the Clinical Director of Focused Technology.

The What & Why of Threshold Based Proportional Feedback

Length: 20 Minutes

Frank Deits

Most neurofeedback as commonly practiced is binary in nature. That is, a "reward" indication is given when some criteria is met. If beta is above threshold, an indicator comes on. If beta is below, the indicator is off.

There is no information as to whether beta is slightly above or greatly above threshold. Proportional feedback provides the missing information by modulating the feedback indication as a function of the signal level. With threshold based proportional feedback, visual and/or auditory feedback starts when the eeg signal is above threshold. As the signal increases the feedback changes in nature. The sound may become louder or more harmonic. A visual display may change color.

Proportional feedback has a more "natural" feeling. There is a sense of connection with the sound or light. Thresholds are not as critical as with binary.

Both binary and proportional feedback will be demonstrated.

Frank Deits is Technical Director of Focused Technology and designer of the F1000 Feedback Training System. He has extensive background in instrumentation and feedback systems used in the aerospace industry. Frank has 16 years experience as an electronics instructor at Idaho State

University and Pima Community College.

WS A Guide to the Neurodevelopmental "Power Therapies" And Their Use in The Treatment of PTSD and related Somatic Complaints

Presenters; Carol Schneider, Ph.D, and Mike Gismondi, MA, LPC

In this four-hour workshop, we will combine hands-on technique demonstration with psychobiological theory concerning the state-of-the-art psychotherapeutic treatment of trauma and related somatization disorders.

Learning Objectives

(1) Understand the significance and evolution of the Power Therapies, i.e., those new or little known trauma psychotherapy techniques that offer significant improvements over traditional methods in terms of the speed, depth and permanence of trauma symptom

reduction while minimizing client retraumatization or destabilization. The original "Power Therapies" categorization was developed by traumatologist Dr. Charles Figley and involves four "cutting edge" trauma psychotherapy techniques, Eye Movement

Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Thought Field Therapy (an accupressure-based desensitization tool) , Traumatic Incident Reduction and Neurolingusitic Programming's Visual-Kinesthetic Dissociation. Protocols for all four methods will be reviewed.

(2) Achieve introductory-level working knowledge of both the techniques, their underlying theoretical rationale and suspected neurophysiological mechanisms of action.

(3) Learn Power Therapy integration strategies and explore their clinical utility.

(4) Become familiar with the concept of the Neurodevelopmental Power Therapy integration strategies, it's roots in the work of Allen Schore, Bruce Perry and Bessel Van der Kolk and it's implications for Neurotherapy and the Neurosciences as a whole.

(5) Review the field experiments of Dr. Schneider combining EMDR with the "crossover point" in alpha-theta training and the possible therapeutic/ scientific synergies between EEG Brainmapping and neurotherapy on the one hand and the neurodevelopmental power therapies on the other.

Michael Gismondi, MA, LPC

Mr. Gismondi has been a psychotherapist since 1976, licensed as a Psychologist in 1982 and as a Licensed Professional Counselor in 1992. He has received graduate-level training in clinical and educational psychology, as well as Information Science, Artificial

Intelligence and the modeling of human information processing. He was the lead organizer of the first Power Therapies Integration Conference in Denver (1997) and was more recently asked by Professor Charles Figley to help develop an advanced traumatology certification program for Florida State University. Mr. Gismondi specializes in innovative

approaches to trauma work and Behavioral Medicine.

PS30 Client Transformations in mind, body and spirit: patterns, milestones & interventions.

Rhonda Greenberg, Psy.D.

PS Enhancing immune function with hypnosis and guided imagery

John Gruzelier

Neurofeedback with schizophrenic patients, new directions in EEG measurement with implications for neurofeedback

John Gruzelier

WS2 QEEG subtypes in ADD/ADHD, LD, OCD, Trauma, etc.

Jay Gunkelman

The 11 QEEG subtypes identified in over 450 children with ADD/ADHD by Robert Chabot, Ph.D. will be discussed and analyzed for NF protocol implications. The theta, alpha and beta subtype groupings and their

variations will be described. The main types will have a case reviewed.

Other cases seen in the workshop will include LD, the OCD subtypes, Trauma and others as time avails.

WS2 Drug, toxic and substance abuse effects on the EEG/QEEG.

Jay Gunkelman

This workshop will cover the major drug categories, as well as common street drugs and toxic exposures expected impacts on qEEG patient profiles. The anti-depressant subtypes' different effects will be

discussed. The interaction with individual CNS arousal levels will be identified. A case with before and after qEEGs showing the effects of lithium overdose will also be seen.

PS Frontal Lobe Electro-physiological Evaluation

Jay Gunkelman

The frontal Lobe articles by Niedermeyer suggest specialized topographic distribution of attentional, motor regulation and affective function in the frontal lobes. These differentiations and their electrophysiological profiles will be dislayed. The commonly reported finding of frontal alpha will also be shown to have a variant,

with the frontal alpha being an artifact of temporal lobe contamination of the reference electrodes in this subtype.

PS2 Designing NF Intervention Based On qEEG Evaluation

Jay Gunkelman

The optimal use of database for qEEG evaluation will be shown. The availability of remontaging, the increased resolution of single Hz. analysis and presence of an eyes open normative evaluation provides optimal client profiling. The ease of designing NF intervention based on these detailed evaluations will be shown.

PS Twilight Learning in the Treatment of a Case of Sexual Abuse and Sexual Aversion.

Corydon Hammond

PS "QEEG Profiles of Psychiatric and Medical Conditions: A Review from Published Literature."

Corydon Hammond

WS2 Managing Abreactions, Reframing, and Memory Integration During Alpha/Theta Training: Techniques and Liability Protection in a False Memory Era.

Corydon Hammond

ABSTRACT: Alpha/theta training may allow unconscious material to emerge during neurofeedback sessions. This is especially true when therapists are following the Penniston/Kulkosky model for PTSD treatment and creating the expectation and overtly suggesting that the person remember problematic memories. However, when intense material emerges, it is crucial that the patient senses that the therapist is comfortable with and not frightened by the material. Furthermore, unless the patient is very bright and reframes for him/herself, there is nothing necessarily therapeutic about a cathartic experience. At best, they may experience fleeting emotional relief, and at worst, the return of a forgotten memory may constitute a retraumatization unless it is accompanied by a therapeutic reframing and memory integration process. This workshop will discuss methods for the therapeutic management of strong emotional reactions, for titrating affect, and alternatives for reinterpretation and memory integration that are not unduely suggestive.

Working with abuse issues must now be considered a high liability area in the current false memory era. Therefore, this workshop will also include a brief overview of the false memory controversy and its excesses, memory research, and methods for liability protection in working with abuse issues. These latter issues were covered by the speaker in a comprehensive co-authored book that recently won the Guttenmacher Award for the Best Publication of the Year in Psychiatry and the Law from the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law and the American Psychiatric Association.