I'm working on a theory and would like to know if it's possible to change the brain in targeted areas without removing the essence of the person
Hi Noah Cottle
I've read your paper with interest, it ends 10 pages in can you send me the rest? I applaud your thinking outside-of-the-box approach. Mental health and psychophysiological dis-ease are truly at pandemic proportion and to continue to treat it with the same old tools, expecting a different outcome would fit Einstein's definition of insanity.
Can I encourage you to consider undiagnosed trauma within your scope? If after an emotionally overwhelming experience (trauma) an emotional memory image (EMI) is created and held to safeguard against future occurrence, then the child is held in a below-conscious negative learning cycle. If we were to diagnose these EMIs, which takes a couple of minutes and clear them, then it would be fascinating to look for neurological shifts. Regarding your point on cultural influence, I would suggest that "Fear" has no cultural threshold, it is the fear and defence cascade that is labelled "mental health" If we remove the fear then there is no deregulation of the HPA axis, no allostatic overload and potentially no mental health crisis.
Please take a look at Split-second Unlearning Article Split-Second Unlearning: Developing a Theory of Psychophysio...
and Definition and attributes of the emotional memory images underlying psychophysiological dis-easeArticle Definition and attributes of the emotional memory images und...
Best wishes
Matt
Hello Noah,
1. I authored an article in 2016 (attached) on the Rewind Technique to help veterans who suffered war trauma integrate trauma into their lives. There is likely more information since 2016.
2. Another technique for addressing trauma is visualization including mental exercises that snip at the amygdala.
3. There has also been results with hypnosis, although this would need to be done in a therapeutic setting with a skilled practitioner in this area.
4. In my nursing care of trauma patients, I have found that patients find some level of "peace" after integrating their experience into their present reality. There are also expressions of gratitude as the trauma provided some type of lesson, for which they have carried forward into "wisdom."
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