Media & Articles

Using Brainspotting to Resource Positive States

From Robin Shapiro

David Grand’s Brainspotting is a powerful technique for clearing trauma and strengthening internal resources. It started as an offshoot of EMDR and has become, through the innovations of Grand and Lisa Schwarz, its own effective therapy. Here are two ways I’ve been using it for resourcing. [Click to read more]

Behind The Fury

Lisa Schwarz is interviewed By Ray Mernagh for his Fri, 09/09/2011 article:

James Harrison is crazy. That’s the prevailing thought of a lot of NFL fans and folks in the media/blogosphere, especially after his rant in the cover story from the July edition of Men’s Journal magazine.

In the article written by Paul Solotaroff, Harrison seems to bring back the popular chant from the Hippies of the 1960′s — burn baby burn. Only Harrison wasn’t talking about bras, draft cards or flags. Harrison was talking about his commissioner. [Click to read more]

From Journal of Constructivist Psychology

In this third article in the series Competing Visions of the Implications of Neuroscience for Psychotherapy, Brian Toomey and Bruce Ecker argue that “the great majority of clinical symptoms are caused by implicit memory. If this proves to be true, the selective depotentiation of implicit memory would be the therapeutic strategy having broadest applicability and efficacy.” Click to download the article

Cardiac Rhythms Synchronize With Music

It is well-known that music can elicit strong positive or negative emotions, but this new research shows that music is also linked to unconscious physiological responses, said the study’s lead author, Luciano Bernardi, MD, professor of internal medicine at Pavia University, in Italy. “Here we show, probably for the first time, that there is a continuous interaction between the music dynamics and our cardiovascular system, whether there are conscious emotions or not,” Dr. Bernardi said in an interview. These findings could have implications for the potential use of music as a therapeutic tool, he added.Click to download article

From Sports Illustrated

Catchers Gone Wild by Phil Taylor

Mickey Sasser played 9 years with multiple professional baseball teams but developed an unexplained wildness in 1991 and, by 1995, was out of baseball.

After listening to advice from dozens of sources and trying all kinds of remedies—the Mariners had him hypnotized by a priest and ordered teammates to put orange dots in their gloves to give Sasser a better target—he met sports psychologist David Grand. With the help of Rob Polishook, a mental-training coach, Grand treated Sasser the person, not just the ex-catcher with the yips. Click to read more