Visual, DEVELOPMENTAL & EDUCATIONAL Services for your entire family

​The Center for Visual Management

FOSTERING Clinical EXPERTISE, RESEARCH & EDUCATION​

What's vision got to do with it?

Dr Joseph LeDoux, a prominent NYU neuroscientist, believes that emotions

and cognition are best thought of as separate, but interacting mental functions

mediated by separate, but interactive brain systems. This model best explains

the visual management of perceptual, affective and social-emotional behaviors.

The medical histories of patients suffering from severe anxiety reveal

childhood symptoms, which evolved. Disturbances in our visual 'time/space'

interactions, usually begin in childhood or adolescence, and can go on to trigger

emotional reactions before the brain has even fully processed the stimulus.

This, in turn effects the individuals perceptions or feelings towards the object

or person he or she is viewing. Some individuals become frustrated, anxious or

even explosive, while others retract into themselves and seek isolation.

These delays in representational processing effect the storing and retrieval of

memories, creating a significant emotional response at all levels. The anxiety at

this stage in their life, however, now surfaces as "why are the walls closing in on

me?" "why can I no longer walk through a department store?" "why am I so

anxious driving?" or even "why do I no longer want to go out and socialize?"

Of note, however, what is learned by experience, can be changed through new

experiences, therefore visual management has been effective in treating adults

with long standing, progressive perceptual concerns.

The role of visual management is to change the manifestation of these

emotional behaviors (specifically, fears which are conscious, and anxiety, which is physiological and unconscious) through a series of growth and movement procedures. Procedures are designed starting with awareness of the visual impact of their symptoms, then moving the individual to a level of relaxed attention and perceptions and finally, establishing performance that is reflective of such.

Visual Management of Perceptual Concerns Affecting Health,

Mood & Social-Emotional Behaviors