Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site.

# Neal Miller

100 Year Anniversary

## Posts

- [Articles ](https://nealmiller.org/?page_id=127)
- [Developing Acceptance with the Help of Sensors](https://nealmiller.org/?p=770) - [pdf-embedder url="http://nealmiller.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/DevelopingAcceptance.pdf"]
- [Fake It (or Face It) Till You Make It? Taking a Deeper Look](https://nealmiller.org/?p=765) - [pdf-embedder url="http://nealmiller.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/FakeItOrFaceIt.pdf" title="Fake It Or Face It"]
- [The Biofeedback Odyssey: From Neal Miller to Current and Future Models of Regulation](https://nealmiller.org/?p=360) - Nava Levit Binnun, PhD, Yulia Golland, PhD, Michael Davidovitch, MD, and Arnon Rolnick PhD, Herzelia, Israel. The following articles represent the fact that Neal Miller concepts and theory continues to influence researches all over the world. The work presented here is part of a research project of The Unit for Applied Neuroscience, Israel The Unit
- [ What Should CBT practitioners learn from The Psychoanalyst Paul Wachtel or  The concept of Exposure to Emotions as a development in CBT and as a potential bridge to an integrative model](https://nealmiller.org/?p=397) - An abstract of a paper submitted to the 2013 EABCT conference In this paper we will review the extensive work done by Paul Wachtel, A prominent psychoanalyst of the Intersubjective School. Wachtel, PhD, is CUNY Distinguished Professor in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University
- [Should biofeedback therapists blush? Some thoughts on the subject of self regulation in the treatment of Blushing.](https://nealmiller.org/?p=370) - Arnon Rolnick, PhD This post deals with a question which is on one hand focused on specific symptom, but on the other hand is very much central to our concepts about control and the ability to let go. While I was working in the navy in the 1980s, I was approached by a young girl
- [In Memoriam - Hershel Toomim](https://nealmiller.org/?p=384) - While originally, this site was dedicated to Neal Miller, I thought that it is very much appropriate to reserve here some space to other biofeedback leaders who passed away. In some countries there is a burial place where all the leaders of a nations are buried. Sometimes the site is named after a specific leader, yet
- [Some comments on Personal Experience as a major part in biofeedback training ](https://nealmiller.org/?p=375) - Hands on Personal Experience Objectives The objective of the Experience is to enable the trainee to experience two roles: that of the patient and that of the therapist. Experience as patient: we believe that a person can treat in the psycho-physiological field only after having himself experienced the feeling of "being a patient". This is
- [FOLLOWING NEAL MILLER'S FOOTPRINTS: INTEGRATING BIOFEEDBACK WITH THE PSYCHODYNAMIC, RELATIONAL AND INTERSUBJECTIVE APPROACH.](https://nealmiller.org/?p=351) - ARNON ROLNICK, PhD, Ramat Gan, Israel, AND WILLIAM RICKLES, MD, MA, Los Angeles, CA ABSTRACT We provide a brief review of Neal Miller's translation of psychoanalytic theoretical concepts into operational behavioral research, and explore relevant interactions of clinical biofeedback and psychoanalytic practice, both now and in Miller's time. Presently, psychoanalytic psychotherapists are more
- [Prof Eric Stone write about Neal](https://nealmiller.org/?p=348) - I was Neal Miller's student at both Yale and Rockefeller from 1962-1969 and was involved in extending his biofeedback studies to rodents and in initiating studies on the role of brain catecholamines in animal models of depression. Miller's influence has been a significant factor in my subsequent analyses of the neurobiology of depression and development
- [Special Issue of the biofeedback magazine is dedicated to Neal Miller](https://nealmiller.org/?p=336) - We are happy to inform that the new issue of the biofeedback magazine published by the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback is dedicated to Neal's work. While the committee has not been overly active recently, I hope this event will spur more action from us all. Following is a list of the articles in the
- [Frank Andrasik's welcoming comment in the WCBCT2010](https://nealmiller.org/?p=327) - Frank Andrasik, the president of the American Association for Behavoral and cognitive therapies, Professor of Psychology & Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition and the Editor of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback Andrasik openning comments in the World congress of Behavioral and Cognitive therapies are presented in the following video:
- [The WCBCT commemorates Neal E. Miller](https://nealmiller.org/?p=320) - The recent World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies which was held in Boston June 2-5, 2010 has posted the following paragraph in the scientific program page in its internet site (www.wcbct2010.org): "The WCBCT commemorates Neal E. Miller (1909-2002) Dr. Neal Miller, a professor of psychology and neuroscience, proved to be a pioneering force in
- [David Barlow's lecture on Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Boston in 1965, 2010, and 2025](https://nealmiller.org/?p=314) - David Barlow’s lecture on the history and the future of CBT, is not related directly to Neal Miller - but as this site is interested in the develoment of psychology, we thought that this lecture might be relavant. We present here most of the lecture (divided to two parts: History and Future) This is
- [The story behind Miller's Vienna trip (In Neal's own words)](https://nealmiller.org/?p=123) - Miller had an insight about the similarity between Freud’s conception of repression and Pavlov’s conception of inhibition, he resolved to extend Hull’s program to an examination of Freudian theory and practice in terms of the laws of learning. He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to study in Vienna at Freud’s Psychoanalytic Institute where he underwent
- [The President of AAPB about the Neal Miller Event in San Diego March 2010](https://nealmiller.org/?p=287) - We have saved the best for last. For the bulk of the convention, we are going to be focusing primarily on the future of AAPB, discussing new treatments and new technologies. However, our focus on the future does not mean that we are going to forget about AAPB's past. It's with great pleasure that I
- [The first "biofeedback marathon" - in Neal Miller 100th Aniversary](https://nealmiller.org/?p=269) - New: A 3 day event in honour of 100 year to Neal Miller Three Days With Prof. Richard Gevirtz This activity is sponsored by SomaticVision (USA) and psyphi (ISRAEL) Tuesday, December 22,2009 A “Master Class” with Prof. Gevirtz with hands on training for members of the Agudah in the use of HRV and other modalities. Bring
- [Paul Wachtel shares thoughts on Neal Miller, Behaviour Therapy and Psychoanalysis](https://nealmiller.org/?p=259) - I first became acquainted with Neal Miller's work as an undergraduate at Columbia. I had been a physics major for my first three years as an undergraduate and switched to psychology only in my senior year. In order to graduate as a psychology major, I had to take virtually all psychology courses that year,
- [Testimonial for & Reminiscences about Neal Miller](https://nealmiller.org/?p=255) - Testimonial for & Reminiscences about Neal Miller Gordon H. Bower Professor of Psychology (Emeritus) Stanford University (1959 - 2008) August, 2009 I had the supreme good fortune to receive a graduate research assistantship with Neal Miller at Yale from 1955 through 1959. By that time Neal was at the peak of his extraordinary productivity. He
- [Phil Zimbardo Remembers Neal Miller](https://nealmiller.org/?p=252) - April 15, 1954 was the date. I think it was noontime, for sure; it was at the New Yorker Hotel, where I first encountered Neal Miller; he was the featured highlight of EPA that year. It was the occasion of his giving a brilliant lecture summarizing years of research on motivation and reward-in rats. It
- [Larissa Pohorecky's Testimonial](https://nealmiller.org/?p=248) - As a freshly minted postdoc coming from the Boston area, I was really excited about the prospects of my first faculty position in the Big Apple. With a background in pharmacology and a postdoctoral training in neuroendocrinology, I knew next to nothing about psychology and issues like biofeedback, learning and motivation, or behavioral medicine. So
- [Frank Auld: Honouring Neal ](https://nealmiller.org/?p=245) - Neal was adviser for my doctoral dissertation. He worked out a superb design for my experiment; he stood at my elbow, giving support and sagacious advice as I slogged through getting the data; and he critiqued my writing it up, through a number of versions. (John Conger told me, once, "I thought I was
- [Professor Efrain Azmitia: Contribution to Research](https://nealmiller.org/?p=242) - It was 1968 when I first joined Dr. Miller's laboratory as a graduate student of Bruce McEwen. Dr. Miller's laboratory was the first neuroscience laboratory I had encountered. He had physiological psychologists (e.g., Ted Coons, Jay Weiss, David Quartermain, George Wolff, John Winston, Leo DiCara, Bruce Pappas) and biological psychologist (e.g., Bruce McEwen, Eric Stone,
- [Dr. Bob](https://nealmiller.org/?p=239) - Neal was a critical factor in my practice of internal medicine/nephrology. He taught me about the art of science, more so than I ever learned in medical school or subsequent training. I learned from him in my research with him the " you're right, but what else could it be" approach to medical problems. I,
- [List of Miller's students](https://nealmiller.org/?p=225) - Graduate students Aaronson, Inez (Y=Yale) Agarie, Nariyuki (Y), OKINAWA Auld, Frank (Y) Azmitia, Efrain (R=Rockefeller) Bailey, Clark J. (Y) Banuazizi, Ali (Y) Berkun, Mitchell M. (Y) Birge, Jane S. (Y) Bower, Gordon H. (Y) Brown, Janet L. (Y) Brown, Judson S. (Y) Brucker, Bernard S. (NYU/R) Bugelski, Richard (Y) Burros, Raymond H.
- [Biofeedback Bibliography](https://nealmiller.org/?p=70) - Miller: Miller, N. E. (1967). Behavioral and physiological techniques: Rationale and experimental designs for combining their use. In C. F. Code & W. Heidel (Eds.), Handbook of physiology, Section 6: Alimentary canal, Vol. 1: Food and water intake (pp. 51-61). Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins. Miller, N. E. (1967). Certain facts of learning relevant to the
- [Biofeedback and Visceral Learning](https://nealmiller.org/?p=169) - We present one of Neal's more influential articles regarding biofeedback. Written in 1978, Neal defines biofeedback; then deals with the question of which visceral responses can be affected by instrumental training. View more documents from Helik Shemer.
- [A reading from Hall and Lindsey about S-R theory of personality](https://nealmiller.org/?p=215) - Introduction to S-R theory of personality
- [Niels Birbaumer: Paralysis, scoliosis and learning: a tribute to my friend Neal Miller](https://nealmiller.org/?p=221) - During the early seventies we read the first time about a curare experiment: completely paralyzed rats were able to learn in an operant learning situation to control different aspects of the physiology. These reports which later turned out to be unreplicable electrified us because they opened the door for learning treatment of medical diseases. I
- [Rockefeller University Obituaries](https://nealmiller.org/?p=175) - Neal Miller, a pioneer in thefield of neuroscience who in1965 received the U.S. NationalMedal of Science, the nation'shighest award for scientificachievement, died March 23 inHamden, Connecticut. Millerwas 92. He was a member ofthe Rockefeller faculty from1966 to 1988.Miller was best known for hisonce-unorthodox theory that thebody's so-called "involuntary"functions, such as heart rate, canbe controlled in
- [An Overview of Neal Miller's contributions ](https://nealmiller.org/?p=188) - The most basic professional facts and themes of his life - which are elaborated upon elsewhere in this website - are as follows: He is ranked among the ten most eminent psychologists of the 20th Century and was personally awarded the coveted National Medal of Science by President Johnson in 1964. He was highly influential
- [Behavioral Medicine Bibliography](https://nealmiller.org/?p=75) - Miller: Miller, N. E. (1955). Shortcomings of food consumption as a measure of hunger: Results from other behavioral techniques. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 63, 141-143. Miller, N. E. (1956). Effects of drugs on motivation: The value of using a variety of measures. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 65,
- [APA The Neal Miller Lecture Program ](https://nealmiller.org/?p=163) - The Neal Miller Lecture Program is an annual Science Directorate program developed by the Board of Scientific Affairs. Each year, one eminent scientist is selected to give a lecture dedicated to neuroscience and animal research at the APA Annual Convention. The board chose to create this program in honor of the renowned neuroscientist, Neal Miller, PhD,
- [Current Status & Evaluation](https://nealmiller.org/?p=143) - The following is an excerpt from the chapter, Stimulus-Response Theory, in Theories of Personality ( Hall, C.S. & Lindzey, G., 1970). Current Status and Evaluation The application of S-R learning principles to behavioral events outside the laboratory has mostly taken place during the last twenty-five or thirty years. In this interval a very large amount of relevant empirical
- [The Guardian (UK) Obituaries about Neal Miller](https://nealmiller.org/?p=129) - Neal Miller Derided by other psychologists 40 years ago, his pioneering work on biofeedback now routinely brings relief to a host of medical problems Pearce Wright Guardian Thursday April 4, 2002 Neal Miller, the psychologist and neuroscientist, who has died aged 92, was one of the first research workers to demonstrate experimentally the power
- [The Birth of Biofeedback](https://nealmiller.org/?p=94) - Taken by permission from Biofeedback, Mind-Body Medicine, and the Higher Limits of Human Nature Donald Moss, Ph.D. A chapter included in: D. Moss (Ed.). (1998). Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology: A Historical and Biographical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing. Reprinted with permission of Greenwood Publishing Group. This book is available from AAPB's Bookstore or from Greenwood
- [Psychoanalysis & Science Bibliography](https://nealmiller.org/?p=79) - Miller: Miller, N. E. (1948). Theory and experiment relating psychoanalytic displacement to stimulus-response generalization. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 43, 155-178. Miller, N. E. (1951). Comments on theoretical models. Illustrated by the development of a theory of conflict behavior. Journal of Personality, 20, 82-100. Miller, N. E. (1957). A psychologist speaks. In H. D.
- [Learning & Motivation Bibliograpghy](https://nealmiller.org/?p=77) - Miller: Miller, N. E. (1941). An experimental investigation of acquired drives. Psychological Bulletin, 38, 534-535. [abstract of paper presented at the annual meeting of the APA] Miller, N. E. (1944). Experimental studies of conflict behavior. In J. McV. Hunt (Ed.), Personality and behavior disorders (pp. 431-465), New York: Ronald Press. Staff, Psychological Research Project (Pilot)
- [](https://nealmiller.org/?p=60) - The Origins of Biofeedback The contributions of many earlier researchers and practitioners can be cited as forerunners of biofeedback: Edmund Jacobsen commenced research at Harvard in 1908, and throughout the 1920's and 1930's worked to develop progressive muscle relaxation as an effective behavioral technique for the alleviation of neurotic tensions and many functional medical disorders

## Pages

- [Neal Miller](https://nealmiller.org/) - New The Biofeedback Odyssey: From Neal Miller to Current and Future Models of Regulation. by Nava Levit Binnun, PhD, Yulia Golland, PhD, Michael Davidovitch, MD, and Arnon Rolnick PhD, Herzelia, Israel. New Rolnick and Rickles article: FOLLOWING NEAL MILLER'S FOOTPRINTS: INTEGRATING BIOFEEDBACK WITH THE PSYCHODYNAMIC, RELATIONAL AND INTERSUBJECTIVE APPROACH. New: Special Issue of the biofeedback
- [מדיניות פרטיות](https://nealmiller.org/?page_id=934) - תאריך עדכון: 16 באוקטובר 2025, 22:05 1) מי אנחנו שם האתר/העסק: ניל מילר (“האתר”, “אנחנו”). בעלים/אחראי: ד"ר ארנון רולניק נייד/מייל ליצירת קשר בנושאי פרטיות: rolnick@gmail.com / 052-2542725 מדיניות זו מסבירה כיצד אנו אוספים, משתמשים ושומרים מידע אישי בהתאם לדין הישראלי, לרבות תיקון 13 לחוק הגנת הפרטיות, ולתקנות הגנת הפרטיות (אבטחת מידע). 2) אילו סוגי מידע אנחנו
- [הצהרת נגישות](https://nealmiller.org/?page_id=831) - מבוא: אתר "ניל מילר" מיועד לאנשים המשתמשים או מתעניינים בשרותים פסיכולוגיים ובעיקר בעבודתו של בפסיכולוג האמריקאי ניל מילר. האתר מכיל מאמרים, הקלטות וסרטונים המסבירים ודנים בנושאים שונים בתחום עבודתו בפסיכולוגיה של מילר. האתר מנוהל על ידי ד"ר ארנון רולניק. במסגרת הקליניקה של ד"ר ארנון רולניק אנו משלבים את שיטות הטיפול מהמובילות בעולם. שמנו לנו למטרה
- [Miller's Students and Collaborators](https://nealmiller.org/?page_id=30) - Neal Miller "raised" a significant group of students. This page summarizes some of his main messages to his students, lists the students he educated, and features testimonials written by a number of these students and collaborators. Students (and the research advice he gave them...and others) All Neal Miller's students considered him a master of research design
- [Behavioral Medicine](https://nealmiller.org/?page_id=39) - From the mid-1970's until a few years before his death in 2002, Miller focused his interests on the role of learning in psychosomatic illnesses and the uses of both biofeedback and learned behavior in maintaining homeostasis and minimizing stress. In particular, he inquired into the behavioral conditions, and the mediating neural and hormonal mechanisms involved. Some
- [Learning and Motivation](https://nealmiller.org/?page_id=82) - Miller's work in the area of learning and motivation was both extensive and groundbreaking. In collaboration with Dollard, Miller revealed four rudimentary aspects of instrumental learning; drive, cue, response and reward. Furthermore, Miller showed that fear can be a learned response, and operate as a reinforcing agent. Following, a detailed description of Miller's innovative work
- [Neuroscience](https://nealmiller.org/?page_id=55) - Several experiments conducted by Miller, that were spurred by his efforts to integrate psychoanalytic principles with learning theory, led to discoveries of specific brain sites, such as the reward-escape site. His revlolutionary discoveried led him on a path that was to end with him as the founding father of SFN, The Society for Neuroscience. Included
- [Biofeedback and Self-Regulation](https://nealmiller.org/?page_id=37) - Neal Miller was a founding father in the field of Biofeedback. The following articles deal with biofeedback, its history and new directions. Included within the material are both some of Miller's own articles, and unique material that the committe has gathered. More recent works represent either projects that derived from Prof. Miller's activity or that of his students.
- [Psychoanalysis & Science](https://nealmiller.org/?page_id=49) - In the area of psychoanalysis, Miller examined Freudian concepts from a learning perspective, specifically stimulus-response theory. Notions including frustration and aggression, approach-avoidance conflict behavior and displacement were meticulously investigated and finally explained via learning terminology. The current section provides a detailed description of Miller's foray in to psychoanalysis and reveals the process used in his
- [Neals' own words about his interest in Psychoanalysis](https://nealmiller.org/?page_id=105)

## Categories

- [All site material](https://nealmiller.org/?cat=1)
- [Biofeedback](https://nealmiller.org/?cat=3)
- [Psychonalysis and Science](https://nealmiller.org/?cat=10)
- [Learning & Motivation](https://nealmiller.org/?cat=11)
- [Obituaries](https://nealmiller.org/?cat=12)
- [American Psychological Association](https://nealmiller.org/?cat=13)
- [Behavioral Medicine](https://nealmiller.org/?cat=22)
- [History](https://nealmiller.org/?cat=23)
- [Mindfulness](https://nealmiller.org/?cat=25)

## Tags

- [History](https://nealmiller.org/?tag=history)
- [Behavioral Medicine](https://nealmiller.org/?tag=behavioral-medicine)
- [Learning](https://nealmiller.org/?tag=learning)
- [Conditioning](https://nealmiller.org/?tag=conditioning)
- [Motivation](https://nealmiller.org/?tag=motivation)
- [Psychoanalysis](https://nealmiller.org/?tag=psychoanalysis)
- [APA](https://nealmiller.org/?tag=apa)
- [Students](https://nealmiller.org/?tag=students)
- [integration](https://nealmiller.org/?tag=integration)
- [CBT](https://nealmiller.org/?tag=cbt)
- [rolnick](https://nealmiller.org/?tag=rolnick)
- [interpersonal](https://nealmiller.org/?tag=interpersonal)
- [Biofeedback](https://nealmiller.org/?tag=biofeedback)