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Treat the Condition Not the Label

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Adding Neurotherapy to Your Practice

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As has been stated several times, neurotherapy blends perfectly with other treatment modalities and metaphors. Neurotherapy closes the gap in many therapies in that the clinician will be able to attend to the biological component of treatment. Neurotherapies, in any of the many manifestations and methodologies, including neurofeedback and neuroguided stimulation (braindriving), are NOT stand-alone treatments. They are simply not adequate, on their own, to treat any meaningful clinical condition. Further, if one is truly treating the condition and not the label, then any one-size-fits-all procedure is also simply inadequate.

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Swingle, P.G. (2015). Treat the Condition Not the Label. In: Adding Neurotherapy to Your Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15527-2_3

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