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Clinical and Experimental Restricted Environmental Stimulation

New Developments and Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Arreed F. Barabasz

    1. Attentional Processes Laboratory, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

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  2. Marianne Barabasz

    1. Attentional Processes Laboratory, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Ernest R. Hilgard
      Pages 1-2

  3. New Theoretical Developments and Perspectives for Clinical Practice

    1. Stimulus and Theoretical Reductionism: What Underlies REST Effects?

      • Peter Suedfeld
      Pages 3-9

    2. A Neo-Dissociation Conceptualization of REST

      • Sean Mee
      Pages 11-19

    3. Bridging the Gap

      • Roderick Borrie
      Pages 21-27

    4. Temporal Patterns of Affect in an Isolated Group

      • Gary Steel, Peter Suedfeld
      Pages 29-39

  6. Stress Management

    1. Slow REST or Fast Drugs: Meditation or Medication?

      • Charles Brownfield
      Pages 101-111

    2. Effects of Chamber REST, Flotation REST and Relaxation on Transient Mood State

      • Arreed Barabasz, Marianne Barabasz, Rebecca Dyer, Noël Rather
      Pages 113-120

  7. Treatment of Habit Disorders

    1. REST: A Key Facilitator in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

      • Marianne Barabasz
      Pages 121-125

    2. Twenty-Four Hours of Chamber REST Produces Specific Food Aversions in Obese Females

      • Rebecca Dyer, Arreed Barabasz, Marianne Barabasz
      Pages 127-144

    3. Treatment of Trichotillomania and Smoking with Hypnosis and REST

      • Marianne Barabasz, Arreed Barabasz
      Pages 145-155

    4. Motivational Factors in Alcohol Consumption: Extending Hull’s Model

      • David DiRito
      Pages 157-162

    5. Chamber REST Reduces Alcohol Consumption: 3, 6, 12, and 24 Hour Sessions

      • Marianne Barabasz, Arreed Barabasz, Rebecca Dyer
      Pages 163-173
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A dozen years ago, Peter Suedfeld introduced the world to the term "REST' to describe the modern technique or therapy involving Restricted Environmental Stimulation. At the time, REST was still equated with "sensory deprivation". Textbooks in psychology and psychiatry cited primarily the work of the 1950s and 60s which suggested that reduction of normal levels of stimulation was, in a sense, a form of torture producing severe psychological disturbances and subjugation of the hapless participant to the whims of an experimenter working in the service of a sinister government. In contrast to this perception, other psychologists and psychiatrists held the unsubstantiated belief that apparent REST effects were merely the result of awe inspiring experimental settings and subject expectancies. Suedfeld was not persuaded by either of these unscientific positions. He (Suedfeld, 1980) argued that REST, when stripped of anxiety producing melodrama, was simply a powerful way to positively alter a variety of psychological and behavioral processes. Research continued. More and more data were published and presented. Research scientists and clinicians began to correct misconceptions. The First International Conference on REST was held in 1983 and IRIS, the International REST Investigators Society, was founded that same year. REST has outlived misconstrued perceptions. The beneficial effects of the technique are now recognized in the majority of scientific texts.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Attentional Processes Laboratory, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

    Arreed F. Barabasz, Marianne Barabasz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Clinical and Experimental Restricted Environmental Stimulation

  • Book Subtitle: New Developments and Perspectives

  • Editors: Arreed F. Barabasz, Marianne Barabasz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8583-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-8585-1Published: 26 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-8583-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 336

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Psychiatry

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