In Chapter 5 of the free book “Becoming a Non Smoker” I describe in detail a technique from NLP (I know, NLP is basically junk, but there are nevertheless some strategies that remain quite useful) called “modelling”. If you want a copy of the book you can download it as a free member of https://psychologybestpractice.substack.com. […]

This video interview begins to do a job that we think is more important than ever: to build a community of colleagues who know and understand that the theoretical frameworks with which we've become so enamoured over the years are more the philosophical wonderings of protected "gurus" than actual evidence-based protocols.

86 separate references and commentary follow this brief discussion.

Study after study demonstrates the role of the amygdala in the perception of many types of chronic pain. A 2012 meta-analysis in the journal “Human Brain Mapping”(1) pointed to a universal acceptance of the role of the amygdala, but also to marked differences between brain imaging relating to acute and chronic pain.

​In the late 1990s/early 2000s, Sutherland ran four pilot studies utilising precursors to SDR Therapy for a wide range of amygdala-mediated disorders: chronic pain (two studies), clinical depression in the moderate-to-severe range, and academic and behavioural performance of children deemed “at risk”.