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Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychologist

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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"freely available on the internet at Google Book Search.
Editor: Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

Education/Credentials

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

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

I hope to make the treatment of addiction 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:

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

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Recent Answers from Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychologist

2009-11-20 Alcoholic brother:

HI Katrina, That must be hard on you. I would say you are perfectly entitled to say that there will be no alcohol beverages at your home as a condition for them visiting you. I have a feeling looking

2009-11-12 alcholics:

HI douglas, An alcoholic is by definition a destroyer of human relationships. There s not much you can do, if he is not willing to admit he has an alcohol problem and accept treatment. The best

2009-11-10 Alcoholic boyfriend:

Dear Katherine, I am familiar with the belief that loved one of alcoholic partners are called enablers. This is based on the unproven assumptions that addiction is all in the mind. Most drug counsellor

2009-10-30 Beer belly:

HI Vanessa, Beer has a reputation of putting on a big belly. Besides if you have a drinking problem you are likely to be overweight as alcoholism and putting on weight have a common factor; namely insulin

2009-09-10 Hallucinations or dementia:

For more information about alcoholic psychosis see: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENAU240&q=alcoholic+psy Talk to a doctor. Maybe he has to be scheduled

 

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