Neuroscience-Based Cognitive Therapy: New Methods for Assessment, Treatment and Self-Regulation by Tullio Scrimali

Author:Tullio Scrimali [Scrimali, Tullio]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Psychology, Neuropsychology
ISBN: 9781119943037
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012-04-13T06:52:47+00:00

In psychotherapy, the study of EDA made its entrance with Jung's research, which called on Freud's assumption that therapy should identify the unconscious processes that were causing the patient's suffering. Jung thus applied the recording of EDA to the analytical technique by preparing a list of words that he read to the patient as he recorded. Where a word was tied to topics critical to the patient's psyche, he observed evident phasic electrodermal responses. His experiments with EDA were published in 1906 in the article “Studies in word analysis” (Jung, 1906). This contribution can therefore be considered the first important stage in integrating EDA recording into the psychotherapeutic setting.

In recent years, developments in digital electronics and information technology have provided renewed motivation for recording EDA, making data measurement not only more reliable but also more easily recorded and subjected to post-analysis. Today, the components of an efficient recording system for this parameter are generally three: a measurement tool, software for recording information, and a computer for processing collected data.

The goal of one important part of my research has been that of developing a reliable yet economic methodology that is easy to use while maintaining verifiable data, collected in a methodologically sound way. This method can then be disseminated on a wide scale, providing reliable clinical as well as scientific results, and therefore facilitating replication of experimental studies. My work in developing equipment for EDA recording and biofeedback started more than thirty years ago. In the 1970s, the Dermometer, connected to an analog plotter, permitted me to launch the first systematic recordings of exosomatic EDA. With Psychotrainer, in the 1980s, I initiated a research project directed at producing a compact, economic, and easy-to-use device for clinical recording of EDA and biofeedback. And then with MindLAB Set (see Section 9.2), I advanced to fully digital technology, achieving at the start of the 2000s a comprehensive, stand-alone tool suite for recording EDA and biofeedback.

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