The overall goal of Wachs Mental Minus seems to be to achieve an awareness, regulation, and control over the focusing system. More broadly stated, the patient needs to be able to maintain visual clarity of their world, no matter the accommodative demand, through the flexibility, stamina, and strength found in their accommodative system. Any anomalies, inadequacies, or inefficiencies may result
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The first time I encountered Dr. Harry Wachs was in 2005, not long before his 81st birthday. He and his wife Ruth, had traveled to San Diego for Dr. Wachs to impart his incredible knowledge and vast experience on the thrity five of us lucky enough to call ourselves his seminar audience. That particular seminar was conducted over three separate
Read moreClose to two years ago, I wrote a post entitled the little battlefields which told the story of my patient at the time, “T”. She had just finished first grade and during an initial session, told me her teacher essentially told her that her intelligence was inadequate for the first grade. Here’s an excerpt from that post: My mind was spinning.
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