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 - Free Your BrainDr. Amen's book is a classic. He helps us to understand the way in which the body and mind are interconnected. As a long time sufferer of anxiety his book and FREE YOUR MIND by Anthony Stultz, helped me to lead a new life free from neurotic worry. Rating: - Everyone should read this book !!!!!This is the most important book I have ever read. I feel that if everyone read this book the world would be a much better place. I feel Dr. Amen is a very talented insightful man. I will recommend this book to everyone that will listen. I am even buying another one to share with others !!!! Rating:  - Before you spend a dime, do your homeworkIf you just read the book, it is easy to get hipped up and excited about all the stuff this guy says. A word of caution, do your homework before you spend your good hard earned money. A doctor where I live, giving a two year, indepth study of the brain course, heard about Amen from a pamphlet someone in the class had found and shown him. His interest was peaked and on the surface it looked promising. He recommended giving the clinic a call. He had not done any homework on him or it yet. I have nor the time or patience to spend detailing this persons experience but to say, number 1 - if you haven't studied the recent information and studies by the leading hospitals in the country, it is hard to know better. SPECT scans are not even being used in current studies anymore, they are becoming antiquated, rather PET Scans and Amen is marketing his business, that is what it is, on theory and SPECT Scans. Just go to his website and you will see he is raking in big bucks public speaking, writing books, promoting his wonder theories and tests. Then call one of the clinics and talk to the people there. It didn't take 2 minutes to figure out what they are up to. I even called back a second time to give them another chance and they failed miserably. After that, talk to people who have been there and spent 3,000.00 on a Spect scan (which you must do first before you can see anyone and get any help) that is basically useless and ask them how they are doing, what they were told and what the think and know about this. {NONE OF THIS IS COVERED BY INSURANCE, another warning flag} You owe it to yourself to spend your time, online, researching all this and it takes a lot of time and a lot of study. The majority of people who go there are sick and in need of help and even desprite for help and he prays on that. They have not done their homework or research and after they spend all the big money upfront to even get to see a therapist, it's too late. Oh, and when you call, don't forget to ask about the therapists and who you actually get to talk to, more insight. Or you can spend your money and go there and you might even get lucky and get some kind of help that you could have gotten in your own backyard without a SPect Scan and spending all that money. Nuff said. Rating:  - Worth ReadingAfter reading this book, I tried some of the prescriptions which seemed to fit me. They do work if you are serious about doing them. Reading this book has made a difference in my emotional health. Rating: - "Brain Overclaim Syndrome"There is precious little solid science here. Amen would seem to be suffering from "Brain Overclaim Syndrome" -- a term coined by Prof. Stephen J. Morse -- where people read much more into brain imaging than is warrented, simply because they have, well...have impressive images to show their clients. Actually, it would appear impossible to say much about the behavior of any particular individual based on brain imaging, because the research to date has shown there to be substantial overlap in the results between controls and experimental subjects. Diagnosing by imaging at this point may have more to do with reading tea leaves than it does with science. In association with Amazon.com | |