New Mind, New Body [antikvár]

Foreword by Hugh Downs In this remarkable book on bio-feedback, Barbara Brown observes that people grasp the idea intuitively and with surprising ease. It is not really a simple idea. The details of the actual training and experimenting are not only complicated but require some knowledge of the related fields of computer technology, electroencephalography and other small-current detection devices, and some aspects of psychological theory. It is new and complex and uncharted, but still people latch on to the idea rapidly. People who wouldn't have the foggiest notion how an inertial guidance system works or how television pictures can be stored on "pictureless" magnetic tape (both of these things are intrinsically simpler than bio-feedback) can usually get a good grip on the principle of biofeedback training (BFT) after one explanation of it. I have no idea why this is true, but I have noticed it. Presently I want to offer one explanation, after which you will probably say "of course," but then when you charge on through the book you are going to find out things about yourself and hints of things about yourself you will long to know about in greater detail. Not that you will be "converted" to bio-feedback—it isn't a religion and, God help us, it shouldn't become a cult—but it is powerful and promising, and if you come to believe in its importance, you will sense the parallel importance of Dr. Brown's careful address to the subject, trying to keep it at once from the ditches on either side of the road of fad-panacea exploitation and traditional-hidebound stultification. She is a scientist, and her approach appears to retain all