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Adding Neurotherapy to Your Practice

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Abstract

For clinicians, the most accurate databases are clearly clinical. Normative databases are far less accurate. The fundamental organizing concept of the normative database for the clinical practitioner is, simply stated, wrong.

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    Although I am flattered by the divine/prophetic reference, I believe that Susan meant the more secular meaning: Divination can be seen as a systematic method with which to organize what appear to be disjointed, random facets of existence such that they provide insight into a problem at hand.

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Swingle, P.G. (2015). The ClinicalQ. In: Adding Neurotherapy to Your Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15527-2_2

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