The Healing Power of Neurofeedback: The Revolutionary LENS Technique for Restoring Optimal Brain Function

An introduction to the innovative therapy that restores optimal functioning of the brain after physical or emotional trauma

- Provides an alternative to the more invasive therapies of electroshock and drugs

- Shows how this therapy helps ameliorate anxiety and depression as well as childhood developmental disorders

- Includes extraordinary case histories that reveal the powerful results achieved

According to the Centers for Disease Control, each year 260,000 people are hospitalized with traumatic brain injuries. The Brain Injury Association reports 1.5 million injuries, many of which go undiagnosed but which lead to all kinds of cognitive and emotional impairments. While neuroscience has learned an enormous amount about the connection between brain trauma and personality changes, the methods proposed for resolving these alterations are generally limited to drug therapy or surgeries.

This book explores a much less invasive but highly effective technique of restoring brain function: the Low Energy Neurofeedback System (LENS). Developed by Dr. Len Ochs in 1992, it has had extraordinary results using weak electromagnetic fields to stimulate brain-wave activity and restore brain flexibility and function. The treatment works across a broad spectrum of human activity, increasing the brain's abilities to adapt to the imbalances caused by physical trauma or emotional disorders--both on the basic level and in the more subtle areas of cognitive, affective, and spiritual processes that make us truly human. While the treatment has had remarkable results with individuals who have experienced severe physical trauma to the head and brain, Stephen Larsen sees it also as an important alternative to chemical approaches for such chronic behavioral disorders as ADHD and monopolar and bipolar depression.

Author: Stephen Larsen
Publisher: Healing Arts Press
Published: 03/01/2006
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.02w x 1.16d
ISBN13: 9781594770845
ISBN10: 1594770840
BISAC Categories:
- Health & Fitness | Diseases & Conditions | Nervous System (Incl. Brain)
- Health & Fitness | Alternative Therapies
- Health & Fitness | Healing

About the Author
Stephen Larsen, Ph.D., is Psychology Professor Emeritus at SUNY Ulster and the author of The Shaman's Doorway and The Mythic Imagination and coauthor of Joseph Campbell: A Fire in the Mind. He has been using the LENS clinically since 1996 and biofeedback since 1975 in his psychotherapy practice. He directs the Stone Mountain Center for Counseling and Biofeedback near New Paltz, New York.