The Evolution
Even at the close of the last century, there was a revolution occurring in the therapeutic disciplines. Respected thinkers such as Fritof Capra writing in the early 1980s in his book, The Turning Point, have explained that major systems of knowledge are evolving. Ways of thinking about the nature of mental processes, specifically emotions, are changing. The early 1990's saw the phenomena of Daniel Goleman's book, Emotional Intelligence. Even the currently popular movie, What The Bleep Do We Know, clearly made the scientific case for the fact that therapeutic professionals must help people to more directly manage the process or physiology of emotion if healthy therapeutic change is to occur and last.
The Revolution
In the late 1970's the team of Henry Snyder and Marilyn Michael began doing research. They had a goal, a vision of developing a more powerful therapeutic approach. They understood that emotion left an electrical and chemical signature within people's brains and bodies. They sought a way of helping people regularly dissipate what they called the signature of emotion. This physiology of emotion that could be continually stimulated was intense and damaging. It was clearly a factor that could worsen people's physical or emotional problems. They envisioned a new framework of tools that therapeutic professionals could add to what they were offering or that could be taught to a new breed of professionals. They envisioned what they called a neurological tool directed at dissipating the eruption of emotion in the body. It was a process critical for health. It was a process that could compliment and strengthen all other types of medical or psychotherapeutic help. They developed a revolutionary approach to treating patients which is now called Neurotherapy training.
