http://www.eyeandmindsociety.com/board/index.php? http://www.eyeandmindsociety.com/board/index.php?tid=5&tpg=1#p13 However, it is important of course to liaise closely with other colleagues such as GP, Ophthalmologist, and Menatal Health teams to ensure appropriate continuity of care.

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It strikes me as strange, however, for someone from one profession (Bates Vision Teacher) to expect colleagues from a different profession (Opticians) to carry out research on behalf of the first profession (Bates Vision Teachers)... These two professions have discrete professional protocols with different aims and objectives.

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I think the starting point must be in Universities where the research and training takes place, but I personally have no access to academia and can just imagine the response if I, a wacky alternative health practitioner, were to show up on their doorstep.

Bates method has something valuable to offer, but I am not clear what it is. It depends so much for its efficaciousness on the understanding of the teacher and the student, and its results do not lend themselves to statistical analysis. I have been teaching for over ten years in a very small way, making very slow progress with my business methods, teaching techniques, and personal progress, because in a business like this, you're really on your own despite the existence of a few others doing the same thing.

I have dialogues with people on YouTube, where my videos attract a modest amount of attention. That feels like a useful thing to do.

But if Bates method is to last and be recognised as a valuable body of knowledge, it needs to be tested and developed by those with the scientific background and the equipment: the opticians. And they are not motivated or interested (hard to resist being cynical here) as long as they can put glasses on the majority and make a good enough living that way.]]> Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:06:22 GMT http://www.eyeandmindsociety.com/board/index.php?tid=6&tpg=1#p11 http://www.eyeandmindsociety.com/board/index.php?tid=5&tpg=1#p10 Psychosomatic eye disorders.When I managed a home visiting service to housebound blind and partially sighted Londoners, we encountered a woman who claimed to have very little sight left, lived in a darkened room, only went out wearing very dark glasses. She claimed that every sudden change in brightness, eg the \'fadeout\' when a television is turned off, caused a permanent deterioration in her sight. We found out that she had visited her local ophthalmic hospital over 30 times and nothing medically wrong could be found with her eyesight. She reacted angrily to any suggestion of a psychosomatic cause.
As we were \'laypeople\', neither medical or social services, we could only respond with \'call us if you want us\' as her relative mobility and social contacts made her low priority for the home visiting service.
One of my home visitors told me of his experience of a man who believed himself to be blind, used a white stick, had his home undecorated as \"I can\'t see anything\". No medical sight problem could be found.
Psychologists, psychiatrists - how do you deal with such cases?
Frank Luck]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:02:03 GMT http://www.eyeandmindsociety.com/board/index.php?tid=5&tpg=1#p10 http://www.eyeandmindsociety.com/board/index.php?tid=5&tpg=1#p9 WELCOME TO THE MIND'S EYE! Thank you to readers from around the globe - from America, Brazil, Sweden to the UK - who have responded so enthusiastically to the launch of this website.

It would be interesting to hear how eye services respond to sufferers of psychosomatic eye disorders in different corners of the world, and what the local treatment is.]]> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:37:46 GMT http://www.eyeandmindsociety.com/board/index.php?tid=5&tpg=1#p9