Posted by Judy Weiser, Administrator I saw this message a while back and wasn't quite clear on who you meant by "you" in this search you wrote about. I waited to see if people would answer you but in this busy holiday season it seems that no-one has yet. As this is a group discussion page, I'll keep this message short now, but in the future if you're writing particularly to me, perhaps email me directly "back-channel" for one-to-one correspondence... that address for me is: Anyway, re: using PhotoTherapy in brain injury, I myself have not had experience with this kind of situation -- not because PhotoTherapy is not useful there, but because my own specialty fields are with street-involved youth, people with HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal/Native/Indigenous youth and addicts... So I have not worked in brain-injury situations myself. However, I also have some experience using PhotoTherapy techniques with people living with various kinds of dementia, and I'd expect these things to be very similar in process and effect. Your question is a general one, and due to being very busy I cannot just type and type re: all kinds of various scenarios re: the kind of people you ask about -- however *IF* the person you describe can still understand what a photograph IS (and is supposed to represent), then I'm sure there are techniques that could be designed to assist them in "locating" the visual trigger in an emotional domain deep inside themselves (whether or not they can consciously "track" this enought to discuss it with you). Sorry not to be of more help, but you're welcome to contact me for some Consulting back-channel if you want to continue the dialogue (though I'm not sure how much I can help). and perhaps you'd like to add an addendum to your message (i.e., "reply" to your own message and title it "additional information about previous message above") -- wherein you explain a bit more about what this person is like, and what you are trying to accomplish as your goal in helping them -- that way maybe other people can make suggestions perhaps! as I say, I was not clear about who the "you" was, when you asked about having info -- maybe others reading your message thought you were writing it to me, even though the Page Preface makes it clear that postings are supposed to be to the whole group?? also you might want to put "brain" or other terms into the Search Box on this page and see if other messages come up that would provide some info... you might find the various postings about Alzheimer's and/or especially those by Katya de Luisa, to be helpful too hope this helps, Judy (Weiser)
on 12/28/2004, 3:05 pm, in reply to "Brain Injury, Memory Loss and Phototherapy"
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Hello Nina,
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