Most Helpful Customer Reviews
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Neurophysics of Human Behavior., January 26, 2001
This review is from: The Neurophysics of Human Behavior: Explorations at the Interface of the Brain, Mind, Behavior, and Information (Hardcover)
This is un unavoidable text for every practitioner of energy psychologies, NLP, psychotherapy in general and excellence performance modelers. Its 355 pages are not ligth reading, becuse every paragraph is packed with information, scientific terminology and rigorous logical reasoning. Our team of physicians and RN's have studied (not readed)"Neurophysics" several times, because it speaks our own language.No occult energies or spiritual jargon here, just plain reasoning based in hard facts of natural sciences. Its three sections and nineteen chapters aim at establishing scientific basis to justify the use of a given intervention tool. In my opinion, this is the only way by which established science can start to consider accepting energy psychologies as legitimate intervention tools. Chapter 1 provides a rational discussion of NLP. This discussion continues in other chapters, looking for the scientific basis of modeling, eye movements, metaphors, submodalities and anchoring.This is the most lucid discussion of neurolinguistic interventions that we have found in all NLP bibliography. The rest of Section II establishes the basis and makes a detailed description of the Theory of Pattern-Entropy Interaction. Section II is the most important part of the book, because guides the reader, step by step, in the design and operation of Neuroprint, a very useful clinical tool that graphically models neurocognitive patterns of information and leads the clinician to use the most appropriate tool for the patient. The authors don't limit their writing to theraputic applications but use 5 chapters to describe Human Performance Modeling and Engineering. A glossary of scientific terminology and more than 500 references (textbooks and scientific references)completes the book Furman, a neuroscientist and NLP Practitioner is the author of 18 scientific papers, and Gallo, a Ph.D. psychologist, founder of EDxTM is the author of several seminal books on energy psychology. We look ahead to future books by these authors.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
Was this review helpful to you? Yes
No
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Destined To Become A Classic, March 23, 2001
This review is from: The Neurophysics of Human Behavior: Explorations at the Interface of the Brain, Mind, Behavior, and Information (Hardcover)
Too many books about human behavior and thought simply aren't worth the time it takes to read them. Most are like celery at dinner, an apetizer with more fiber than taste or nutrition. In contrast, this book is like dining at Maxim's of Paris every Saturday night for a year and only having sumptuous dishes galore. If you are interested to know what memetics, evolution, entropy, chaos theory, biology, neuroscience, psychology, information theory, brain function, thought field theory, state theory, cybernetics, and persuasion have in commmon -- without any psychobabble -- then buy a copy. This book offers the reader a deep, thoughtful, well-documented exploration of numerous subjects as they relate to human behavior. It is a challenging read. You won't be able to read it in one sitting, nor will only one reading be enough to probe the surprising depth of the material. You will however be rewarded with a provocative tour of the fundamenttals of thought and human behavior. I know of no other book that succeeds in tying so many disparate fields of inquiry together. It even provides a way of mapping the nuerocognitive system called NeuroPrint that will help you determine effective interventions with others. Beware: the ramifications of the material are profound and will reverberate through your current beliefs. On a side note, I wish the book were shorter and less expensive. But I am at a loss as to what could be cut that would not damage ther overall presentation. I am grateful the book is so well bound -- my copy is now filled with yellow highlighter and marginal notes, and is and will be referred to regularly. Those issues aside, I strongly recommend that every professor, parent, spouse, therapist, salesman, or individual who interacts with others buy and read a copy as soon as you can. In the future no one will be able to consider themselves knowledgeable in the field of human thought and behavior that has not read and carefully considered the material in this book. It should become a classic.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
Was this review helpful to you? Yes
No
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Filling a Missing Link, August 18, 2000
This review is from: The Neurophysics of Human Behavior: Explorations at the Interface of the Brain, Mind, Behavior, and Information (Hardcover)
For anyone interested in the application of the quantum physics, complexity theory, and study of self-organizing systems to everyday life, this book fills an important missing link. Furman and Gallo clearly know their physics and also much of modern psychology. Their contribution is that they apply the one to the other, and they do this in a very understandable, practical, and useable way. Their NeuroPrint is a tool that is both finite, and intuitive. As one who has studied many "tools" to improve my understanding of myself and others, I have found NeuroPrint an excellent diagnostic tool and a simple "minds-on" device for designing interventions that help me build bridges from negative to positive personal states and behaviors, both for myself and my clients. This should be a standard text in psychology, human behavior, and counseling study programs, both at universities in professional development seminars. Not only is it intellectually satisfying, but also an important contribution to the study of human behavior. It is certainly worth it's $80 price. I am now reading it for the second time, and discovering further insights that I can add to those I found the first time. And, as a professional counselor, it is a text that I will keep at the ready, front and center on my bookshelf.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
Was this review helpful to you? Yes
No
|
|
Most Recent Customer Reviews
|
