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Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychologist

Australia

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Expertise

I have a degree in Psychology from the Sydney University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Nutrition. I am also the author of “GETTING OFF THE HOOK” which deals with the nutritional and psychological treatment of personality disorders. It is freely available on the internet at Google Book Search. I am interested in the relationship between nutrition and behaviour, and as a Probation ans Parole Officer facilitated groups for offenders, many of whom were alcoholics and drug addicts, sex offenders or compulsive gamblers, as well as the whole gamut of “personality disorders”. I am also the ex-editor of the Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia Newsletter, a quarterly publication dealing with hypoglycemia and related health problems. Its web site, together with a shortened course of PSYCHOTHERAPY can be visited at: http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

Experience in the area

Nutritional Psychotherapist

Organizations

The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia

Publications

Book: GETTING OFF THE HOOK
Various articles in the Hypoglycemic Healh Association of Australia Newsletters

Education/Credentials

BA (Psych) Sydney University, Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr (International Academy of Nutrition)

Past/Present Clients

See My Career as a Nutritional Psychologist at: http://psychonutrionaltherapy.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-career-as-nutritional-psychologist.html

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

I hope to make the treatment of depression into a self-help program for anybody to help themselves, by teaching the influence of nutrition on "mental" health.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

The connection between mental illness and nutrition.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

Most "mental" health problems are NOT IN THE MIND, but in a unhealthy body

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Recent Reviews from Users

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Simona	11/12/09	10	10	10	10	Dr Plesman, I want to thank you .....
belinda	11/11/09	10	10	10	10	The information was clear and helped me .....
Jarrod Brown	11/08/09	10	10	10	10	Thank you for the help and many .....
cristina	11/04/09	10	10	10	10	Thank you very much. I will follow .....
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Recent Answers from Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychologist

2009-11-20 My Girlfriend:

Hi Mike This must be very difficult for you. You have to understand that depression is an illness, that prevents a person from being happy in whatever circumstances. Because it is physiological and

2009-11-20 what am i?:

Hi Pewggy, I suggest you first try self-help therapy by adopting the Hypoglycemic Diet as a first step in treatment. Try to educate yourself with the psychonutritional approach to mood disorders,

2009-11-20 what am i?:

Dear Peggy, Yoyu are not the only one that feels this way. You have to understand that many negative feelings we have are not due to a weak character, but can be due to an underlying biochemical abnormality

2009-11-16 please help!:

Dear Jade, It is very difficult to give advice as to how to treat your depression and mood disorder without being in a face-to-facxe relationship. There are many other factors involved in depression

2009-11-14 Dealing with my girlfriends depression:

Hi Robert, It is always difficult to help a loved person with depression, because a depressed person is unhappy whatever the circumstances. Being depression is a physiological disorder, emanating from

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