Long-term Memories

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Body and mind?
Boby

3/2/2011 7:23:54 AM

 Thank you Cristina M. Alberini for your very interesting article. A few months ago, I fell from my bike and suffered since then from PTSD symptoms. The best treatment that I've found so far is Peter Levine's approach to discharge the energy which was stuck during the trauma (see his best-selling book "Waking the tiger"). In your example of John, he experiences a freezing response, which makes his fight or flight response stucked in his body, instead of being used. Do you know this approach? Do you think it could be combined with the kind of memory erase that you discuss? Best, Boby.

Long Term Memories
Bobby G. Bodenhamer

10/31/2010 5:28:59 PM

This is an excellent article providing some extremely important information for what I am doing. I have been successfully treating PTSD clients for several years. I have followed up with these clients and I can provide you with contact information immediately from 3 of those clients - one traumatized in Vietnam and 2 traumatized in Iraq. Because I am not a professionally licensed provider, I am having a great deal of trouble getting this information out. I understand that Steve Andreas, MSW, in Colorado is presently involved in working with the military showing what we can do.

The discipline we use is called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). I also utilize a relatively new model called Neuro-Semantics (www.neurosemantics.com) The owner of that web site is L. Michael Hall, Ph.D., LPC. We have written 9 books together. I have written another book with John Burton, Ed.D., LPC (www.drjohnjburton.com) and a couple years ago I had a book published entitled ("Mastering Stuttering: A Cognitive Approach to Achieving Fluency" for People Who Stutter, www.masteringstuttering.com) I have been doing therapy for 20 years and have trained internationally. At the stuttering web site you can find my biography. I would like nothing more than to demonstrate with clients of your choice what we can do. Indeed, it is quite possible that I can do the work via the telephone.

I am sending out an email concerning your article and I am CCing it to danainfo@dana.org. I stand available to do anything within my power to show you how we can assist PTSD clients from those suffering it from Sexual Abuse as children to those suffering from it in Iraq. It doesn't matter.. the treatment is the same. My email is bobbybodenhamer@yahoo.com. By the way, I am not looking for new clients. Indeed, I am not accepting new clients. :-) But, for sure, I will find time to show you what can be done with these remarkable tools. Thanks Bobby G. Bodenhamer 704-864-3585

Using the reconsolidation theory
Greg Wormald

10/31/2010 5:26:54 PM

 A useful technique for treating PTSD has been a part of Neuro Linguistic Programming therapeutics since the late 1970's. It is a modification of the Phobia Technique and provides lasting relief for about 80% of clients. I use it every week, as do others in a medically oriented psychotherapeutic service. And it does not destroy or change the memory except to provide some 'distance' from and objectivity about, the previously traumatic experience(s). Greg