Which Medical Treatment Plan is Best for You? Ask
Yourself that Question!
New
Evidence Shows that Emotional Type Can Reveal Which Therapy Will Work Best for
You
Did you know that your personality type could help determine
which type of therapy is best for you?
Some of us are "thick
skinned" and some of us are "thin skinned". The "skin"
refers not to our external skin covering, but rather to an expression of our
personality or psychological composition.
Thin-skinned folks are typically
open-minded, sensitive, vulnerable, creative, and artistic. They usually cannot
separate fantasy from reality. In addition, they tend to lose themselves when
around others, due to a lack of separate identity.
Thick-skinned folks are opposite
since they know they are separate from others. They like well-defined
situations and are uncomfortable with vagueness. These terms, thick or thin-skinned,
have been around for a long time.
Only recently, have some researchers
determined that being thick or thin skinned can predict which alternative or
complementary therapy might work best.
The book "Your Emotional Type:
Key to the Therapies That Will Work for You" describes the process for
determining what emotional boundary type you are. Furthermore, it shows how to
match boundary type with a treatment method. For example, thin-skinned people
with asthma might benefit best from hypnosis. Thick-skinned people with
hypertension might best be helped by biofeedback.
This book describes a questionnaire
method to determine boundary type. This subjective method, based on patient's
answers, is one method to determine emotional boundary type.
Standard biofeedback equipment could
also be used, however, to determine emotional type in a scientific, objective,
and empirical manner.
The reasoning behind this is that
polygraphs, lie- detectors, and skin-conductance biofeedback devices all
measure emotional response. These devices reveal the true emotional response to
questions, despite the patient's answers. For example, some people might answer
questions to "save face" or "keep up a tough guy image".
The patient's body might give a different answer than the patient's conscious
mind. The "body answer" is probably more near the truth.
If a person can be emotionally
aroused easily, it makes sense they are thin-skinned. On the other hand, it
must take a considerable amount of emotional stimuli to evoke an emotional
response from thick-skinned people.
To test this theory, one could use a
skin-conductance biofeedback device, such as those listed below, following
these guidelines:
- Connect the biofeedback device to the patient according to the supplied instructions.
- Evoke emotional response by showing patient emotional pictures, such as those in the Thematic Apperception Test.
- Observe and track the emotional responses on the biofeedback device.
- Compare the results above with standard Mind Boundary Questionnaire results. Include also common sense observations whether the patient seems thick or thin-skinned.
- Develop a working testing modality for this new technique that at least equals the results of standard Mind Boundary Questionnaires. Refine as needed.
- After proven, use this new technique since the results are objective and independent of how the patient thinks. In a way, the patient's body answers the questions as to whether they are thick or thin-skinned.
- Use the results from this new test method to determine the best therapy for the patient's malady.
- Advanced users could also use the computer to pre-test the receptivity of a treatment method on a patient using a computer and a biofeedback device. For example, the computer could determine the ability to hypnotize a patient based on skin-conductance.
Takeaways:
- Each of us has an emotional type. This type determines the best therapy approach.
- Questionnaires have been traditionally used to determine emotional type, subjectively.
- Biofeedback devices, using skin conductance, could be used to determine emotional type in a scientific, objective, and empirical manner.
For more information:
- Your Emotional Type: Key to the Therapies That Will Work for You by Michael A. Jawer et al., Inner Traditions/Bear, 2011
- Boundaries of the Mind
- Boundaries in the Mind: Past Research and Future Directions by Ernest Hartmann et al.
- Psychosomatic Plasticity: An "Emergent Property" Of Personality Research? By Michael Jawer
- Thematic Apperception Test
Some Biofeedback Tools available to
the public:
· Mindplace Thoughtstream USB
Personal Biofeedback
Disclaimer - Article is for
information only and is not medical advice.
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