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Expert Profile: Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychologist

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: Degrees & Certifications: BA (Psychology) Sydney University and Post Grad Dipl Clin Nutr Web page: http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

Experience in the area
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), Post Grad Dip Clin Nutrt

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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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Thank-you for responding so quickly. Fortunatly we are not married so I would not have to deal with any legal matters. So if I can actually get him to
(Stacie on 07/03/09)

Thanks
(paul on 05/14/09)

Thank you for the prompt reply!
(Amanda on 03/25/09)

thankyou so much for the advice. It has helped a lot
(julie on 09/06/08)

Thank you greatly!
(Hope on 08/06/08)

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Recent Answers from Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychologist

2009-07-02 leaving an alcoholic: Dear Stacie, Living wit an alcoholic is dreadful, and my thoughts are with you. I suggest that if he ever lay a hand on you that you make this a police matter of assault. I also suggest that you seek...

2009-06-29 Should I talk to the enablers: Hi Brian, The way you describe this, I would agree that her parents are enabling her. This means she would not be motivated at this stage to treat her alcoholism. Without any motivation - or without...

2009-06-12 teenage drinking/personality change: Hi Marie Rose, It is of course difficult to say from a distance what is happening. But the fact that she is using alcohol seems to indicate that she is medicating herself against some stress. It could...

2009-05-23 borderline and alcoholic: Hi Trish, Well, they say that an alcoholic has to reach his rock-bottom, before he is ready to seek treatment. The trouble is that when he is ready it is difficult to get the right treatment, because...

2009-05-16 Signs of End Stage Alcoholism: Dear Deborah, I suppose that he is in good hands with the doctors. As a nutritional psychologist I am interested in the connection between nutrition and mood disorders, including alcoholism. I can...