That's his actual homepage??
I assume that's a least a page that he manages. The "research" foundation is really his, though and I assume the page I posted is managed by him, too or seems to be.
That's his actual homepage??
I like how a few pages haven't been updated since the 90's. That's a pretty accurate metaphor for TRT.Not only does he charge thousands at his clinic in Maryland but you can donate to his hearing disorders foundation, too:
http://tinnitus-pjj.com/
To add to that here is the mission statement:
Mission: The purpose of the organization is to make contributions in the form of scientific, basic and clinical research into proper diagnosis methods, underlying causes, and treatment options for the betterment of individuals suffering from hearing disorders.
Programs: The foundation conducted its post-graduate level training course in advanced research and treatment methods for hearing disorders.
He's too busy building a TRT empire with books, courses and multiple clinics. He has made a fortune with this idea, he has every financial incentive in the world to never question it.I like how a few pages haven't been updated since the 90's. That's a pretty accurate metaphor for TRT.
Tbh his site gives off serious internet 1.0 vibes I kind of like it. It would be cool if he didn't suck.His webpage loads correctly on web browsers from 1995-1997. The only element that does not load correctly is the pay pal extension.
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Mindboggling. The guy is a living anachronism. Imagine having a broken leg and being labelled as purposefully negative and weak if you struggle to walk on it. Wow smh this guy infuriates meThat's his actual homepage??
I genuinely don't understand how anyone could read this and not see it for the obvious patient-blaming and gaslighting it is. That's like saying the severity of chronic pain is irrelevant, if you just respond positively your brain will tune it out. Also, TRT can and has harmed patients. Whether it's pain-hyperacusis patients that relapsed or people whose tinnitus got worse, the advice given by TRT practitioners isn't safe for everyone.
- Notably, the involvement of the limbic and autonomic nervous systems is responsible for the annoyance evoked by tinnitus; the loudness and pitch of tinnitus are irrelevant to a large degree and normally do not play a significant role.
- Accordingly, if we can train the brain to classify tinnitus-related neuronal activity as representing a neutral, nonsignificant signal, then the process of habituation will occur automatically. To achieve this, it is necessary, however, to fulfill two basic conditions:
- removal of the negative association attached to tinnitus perception.
- preservation of tinnitus detection (but not necessary perception) during treatment.
- Another important property of Tinnitus Retraining Therapy is that it cannot create any harm.
Every time I see something pushed onto the public that clearly doesn't work (like gmail updates), I imagine the people behind these ideas desperately trying to justify their jobs (don't judge, I have actually done this) and this seems like one of those times.To FGG:
I wonder if the Psychotherapy Community's insistence of the efficacy of TRT and CBT is their last
attempt to claim relevance.
Ever since the introduction of Prozac in 1987, their influence and feasibility has shrunken to the point where they are virtually marginalized with so many "methods" discredited.
Several years ago I read that less than 20% of all psychiatrists engage in talking therapy to any degree.
(I recall such TRT and CBTish "therapies" as Rational-Emotive, Reality, Client-Centered,
Encounter Group, et.al. which have almost no practitioners and are largely historical curiosities).
Before 1987, if you visited a psychiatrist for depression he automatically assumed that your attitude, outlook on life, previous experiences, etc. were the cause of such depression and these factors had to be improved. You were supposed to make a Herculean effort of will to suppress all depressive thoughts, sensations, etc. Clients received such "therapy" for years with no improvement. When the first antidepressant drugs were introduced, many clients had their depressive states lifted within weeks.
This began the demolition of the talking therapy model that was originally instituted by Freud.
In spite of all of the defenders and apologists for TRT and CBT, the one single, galling realization is that they have not yet been rendered as obsolete as the abovementioned example regarding depression only because no other treatment for tinnitus yet exists.
They resemble squatters who occupy vacant, abandoned buildings and then disappear when a new owner arrives.
The last vacant building for them to occupy is this treatmentless condition.
Oh great, now I can't ever change it .@FGG your photo's also reflective of this site's attitude towards Lenire
Not till Neuromod doesOh great, now I can't ever change it .
isthis research on consciousness related to you wanting to die?Caroll debates a panpychist.
it has more to do with trying to explain how perception, subjective experience and free will can rise from certain arrangement of matter. The materialist have already came to a conclusion that free will doesn't exist based on physics alone. They are okay with blackholes violating the laws of physics but if consciousness appears to do so as well they deem it problematic and just an illusion.isthis research on consciousness related to you wanting to die?
Can you elaborate on this part if you have the time/inclination?no past of future exist only an eternal present. Time is just the classical entropy of a system decaying overtime.
typo, *no past or future exist only an eternal present.Can you elaborate on this part if you have the time/inclination?
Einstein believed all time is instantaneous and just appears linear?typo, *no past or future exist only an eternal present.
If time exist the way Einstein imagined it as fundamental, there is no room for free will. I will give an example offering a hypothetical end of the Universe.
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If you believe in time the way Einstein did, you believe the entire Universe from the Big Bang till two trillion years from now when black holes eat the entire thing and collapse it has already happened all at once. Time is just playing out the grand show frame by frame. We are just biochemical puppets dancing to the bouncing particles with zero free will to change a pre-determined machine based Universe.
If space-time and matter is emergent from a quantum level then perhaps there is physical change to matter that can occur outside of time.
That Jastreboff video for as enraging as it was, was really depressing. Like... I feel completely like giving up. This guy is a University professor for chrissake's and all I am is some kind of "flag waver". That's just crushing.
what's the fucking point fam. It doesn't get better.
I hate that my life is defined by This shit. That the last thing I will remember before I die is this unwanted Chinese water torture.
Let's assume this is true. With no memory of your previous experiences, are you still "you".You can't die! Consciousness succeeds space-time and physical matter all together.
Quantum energy that gives you conscious agency does not end with biological death. You are stuck in an enscapable matrix of conscious existence. What you refer to as death is nothing more but a break in a stream, the biological vessel your consciousness is in is just a host. When the host dies quantum entanglement to another biological organism or vessel to host consciousness happens.
During the time of the big bang the Universe was one infinitely dense proto-particle. Quantum physicist (even the materalist ones) believe every particle in the Universe is connected in the quantum. Two particles at polar ends of the Universe can be united faster then the speed of light, (instantaneously) in the quantum. Your quantum soul will find a new biological vessel through this quantum entanglement. Without a quantum soul a biological vessel would have no free will and likely no conscious experience, you would just be in a coma state.