Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nathan Hare, Clinical Psychologist...
...researchers also cite as a crucial influence the work of Cornell's Ulric Neisser, whom White describes as "a cognitive psychologist who denounced his own movement." He explains "Neisser argued that you're never going to understand the way people think just by sitting around in laboratories doing hothouse little experiments. People are not computers--what you've got to do is go out and watch people behaving in everyday settings. I suppose we're working in that spirit...
...degrees. After six to ten sessions, at $150 each, patients are weaned from the machines and are able to elicit the relaxation response at home without mechanical prompting. "All biofeedback does is make you more aware of what's going on in your own body," says Psychologist Lyle Miller, who uses the technique at Boston University's biobehavioral sciences clinic. "There is a significant amount of voluntary control over so-called involuntary responses, as the yogis have demonstrated for centuries...
...biofeedback and other relaxation techniques gain acceptance, doctors are testing them against all sorts of ills. Duke Psychologist Richard Surwit has shown that biofeedback and progressive musclerelaxation exercises can help diabetics maintain steadier glucose levels. At Children's Orthopedic Hospital in Seattle, Dr. William Womack helps youngsters contend with the strains of growing up. Kurt Russell, 16, was immobilized by migraines for days at a time until Womack taught him a self-hypnosis technique. Now symptom-free, the teen-ager travels twice a day to a peaceful place in his mind. "You imagine yourself in the woods or skiing...
...most remarkable work in relaxation has been done with cancer patients, who often suffer excruciating anguish over the uncertainty of their future and the horrors of treatment. Chemotherapy can be especially devastating. Patients become so apprehensive that they may feel nauseated just at the thought of treatment, says Psychologist Thomas Burish of Vanderbilt University. "One woman even vomited in a drugstore when she saw the nurse who administered her therapy." Burish has helped cancer patients control their anxiety and nausea through biofeedback and progressive muscle-relaxation training. While the technique is not a cure, he says, "pa-tients do gain...