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Holistic Guidance - Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness
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List Price: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89
EAN: 9780812929980
ISBN: 0812929985
Label: Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 1999-12-31
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: 1999-12-31
Studio: Three Rivers Press
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In this age of do-it-yourself health care (heck, if the doctor only sees you for 10 minutes each visit, what other options are there?), Change Your Brain, Change Your Life fits in perfectly. Filled with "brain prescriptions" (among them cognitive exercises and nutritional advice) that are geared toward readers who've experienced anxiety, depression, impulsiveness, excessive anger or worry, and obsessive behavior, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life milks the mind-body connection for all it's worth. Written by a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who has also authored a book on attention deficit disorder, Change Your Brain contains dozens of brain scans of patients with various neurological problems, from caffeine, nicotine, and heroin addiction to manic-depression to epilepsy. These scans, often showing large gaps in neurological activity or areas of extreme overactivity, are downright frightening to look at, and Dr. Amen should know better than to resort to such scare tactics. But he should also be commended for advocating natural remedies, including deep breathing, guided imagery, meditation, self-hypnosis, and biofeedback for treating disorders that are so frequently dealt with by prescription only.
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Summary: Could Change Your Life
Comment: I found this book to be very informative to say the least and actually, I think it could give hope to someone. There were times I thought it was more for another Psychologist, but it is mostly easy reading. I think a lot of people could find from this book that they may have the same types of problems described and know that there is help out there and hope. It's a book that should have been written.
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Summary: Outstanding
Comment: Easy to read and invaluable not only to anyone who wants to improve the quality of his life, but also a great tool for writers who want to deal properly with emotions in the lives of their characters.
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Summary: Change your brain - if you can
Comment: While it's true that no one has put such information into printed form for the layman before, everyone should realize up front that brain function is still largely a blank area in our map of the body.
Five centuries ago maps were made with a convention designed to discourage travel into areas that had not been mapped (very cautious, those cartographers). It usually went something like this; the cartographer would engrave "Here there be Tygers" or a warning in words of like meaning into the center of the blank area on the map plate before it was printed. A similar warning should be emblazoned across the cover of Dr. Amen's book.
Nothing in the book is misleading, as far as I can tell (not being a neurologist, but a safety engineer), and it is written in a very readable style. It's even funny and lighthearted where that is permitted by the subject matter. I really enjoyed the book, which I found to be somewhat more detailed and marginally more technical than the Doctor's PBS television program.
The problem with this book is that Dr. Amen actually gives advice on changing someone's brain function for fun and profit (well, okay, perhaps not for profit, except the personal gain of a different, and perhaps more tractable [wife, son, father] to deal with). He does not give instructions on dosing them with Welbutrin or Ritalin, but he does say that if you change your diet, or exercise more some of your brain function may change, and while that is not necessarily a bad thing - all of his examples were very successful and relieved problems that were in a few cases of some decades' duration.
This is the good side, and as far as I can see, it is truly well-intentioned. If everyone can stick to this approach, it should be possible to bring tens of thousands of people out of problematic behavior and restore them to the way they were before, or bring them out of problems that they have had since childhood and offer them what amounts to a new world.
The other side of Dr. Amen's approach is that it is possible to read his book and then make someone's brain function worse simply by going against the doctor's advice. I ask you to note that I bought this book with the idea that I could change some of my own behavior and that on the way there I found that the advice in the book could be perverted. I still rated the book four stars out of five. Nevertheless, purchasers of this book should remember that as I said earlier, brain function is still a largely unexplored area of the body, and meticulous care is advised when tampering with it.
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Summary: great book
Comment: The information on brain function was easy to understand, and interesting. The exercise prescriptions and self-tests were very helpful. Excellent book.
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Summary: A worthwhile read, but . . .
Comment: This was a worthwhile read, but I would recommend Thinking Your Way to Better Health by Dr. Andrew Goliszek, which in my opinion offers a wealth of new information on how to use the mind-body connection for health and self-healing.
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