Bridging Audiology and Psychology

%5,'*,1* $8',2/2*<$1' 36<&+2/2*< -Are you Carlos, the one who studied psychology and worked for the X Company? -Yes. Who's this? -It’s me, Manuel. I used to work with you. Remember me? The reader can understand my perplexity. I could not believe my ears. I had not heard from him in over twenty-five years! His problems had a very unpleasant name: compulsive gambling. This is a disorder capable of annihilating not only the sufferer, but his entire family circle. In a moment of despair, he looked for my telephone number and called me. This was his initial listening test: He had asymptomatic otitis in his left ear and bilateral tinnitus: in the right ear a high-pitched beep, similar to the frequency of 8,000 Hz, and in the left, of the white noise type. The distortions in the right ear are remarkable, in line with his stress levels. For a couple of months, I devoted myself to him almost exclusively. I deployed all my resources: behavioral techniques, NLP, EMDR, auditory therapy and a large dose of inventiveness, even conducting fieldwork (or field psychology). Fortunately, he gave up gambling. For a few years we exchanged some messages. Then we lost contact again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