I am a medical doctor trained in neurology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis and hypnotherapy.  I am now a certified instructor for the PSYCH-K^® basic workshop.

I’ve always wanted to know how the body and mind work; how to change and heal and how to help others do the same. Medical school was somewhat of a disappointment to me because it seemed to me that there was no real understanding of how the body works as a whole and how it heals. There was understanding of how parts behave when they are not functioning properly and treatments are focused on correcting or suppressing the malfunction.

I had an intuitive feeling that one’s attitude affects one’s health and I began to see that I was more interested in why people had the problems they had than how to treat them in standard medical practice. I believed that if people could see the attitudes and beliefs related to a problem or the meaning the problem had for them in their lives they would be able to change.

I went into psychiatry and psychoanalysis with the intent of learning how to change attitudes and beliefs. Again, I was disappointed. Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, while often helpful, didn’t seem to deliver what I hoped. It seemed that for most, the benefit was not proportional to the effort, time and money expended on it. People seemed to want to change; why did it have to be so difficult and obscure?

Also, there were individuals who seemed fixated on their stories of victimization and reiterating these stories clearly was not helpful to them. There were other individuals whose guilt and shame was so great that they could not look at themselves with much honesty. There had to be a way to help these people without intensifying their problems.

I read Bruce Lipton’s book, The Biology of Belief. This book describes what I intuitively understood about how our attitudes and beliefs affect our health. At the end of the book Dr. Lipton mentioned PSYCH-K as a way of changing beliefs and I checked it out. It is what I was looking for: a simple method of changing beliefs that does not require the recitation of one’s “story of victimization.” Moreover, it has the great benefit that it can be learned and done by one’s self whenever one discovers a limiting belief, or set of beliefs, in the daily situations that life presents to us.

PSYCH-K has been hugely helpful to me. I believe that I made more change in my first few months of using PSYCH-K than I did in the 8 ½ years of psychoanalysis for my training and at a lot less expense!