But she gave in and worked with consultants after she discovered the challenges of luring new patients and making a livelihood in what the American Psychological Association has pointed out is a practice in decline: Thirty percent fewer patients received psychological interventions in 2008 than they did 11 years earlier, according to this article.
Dr Waldmann said that although a lot of money is ploughed into intensive care, less consideration is given to the emotional and psychological legacy patients can suffer after their experiences and that this needs to be addressed.
So, Laureys and his team studied the near-death memories of people who survived -- in particular those of coma patients -- with the help of a psychological examination.