James E. de Jarnette, Ph.D., M.A., Ph.D. is a neuro-psychoanalyst with over 30 years of experience in helping people with addictive problems. Having studied alcohol and drug addiction at the famed Menninger Institute, Dr. de Jarnette personally supervises outpatient treatment in the addictions. He is a nationally Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress and holds a Diplomate in Medical Psychotherapy and Psychodiagnostics.

Dr. de Jarnette is available as a consultant to Mr. Sautter on cases involving dual diagnosis and where a therapeutic opinion is needed.

For over three decades, Dr. de Jarnette has been on the cutting edge of how to help people turn their personal problems into life solutions.  He is a neuro-psychoanalyst and is a recognized expert in the treatment of addiction, psychotherapy, forensic psychology, neurofeedback, biofeedback, and hypnotherapy.  He earned Ph.D.'s in Developmental Psychology and Psychoanalysis from Sussex College of Cambridge University and from Shefferton University.  He earned his Masters of Arts in Psychology from West Georgia University and his Bachelors of Arts with majors in Psychology and English from Shorter College in Georgia.  In addition, he holds seven national board certifications and three fellowships.  He is a nationally Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress and holds a Diplomate in Medical Psychotherapy and Psychodiagnostics.  In addition, Dr. de Jarnette studied alcohol and drug addiction at the famed Menninger Institute.

Dr. de Jarnette established and ran 4 clinics in Georgia, and he was the clinical director of Cloverdale House, an addiction treatment facility in which he used many of the aspects of the current plan with great success.  He oversaw Program Development and Implementation using Neuro-Psychoanalytic treatment, Group and Individual Psychotherapy (both insight oriented and process oriented), Neurofeedback Therapy, Biofeedback Treatment, Meditative Living, Milieu Therapy, Cue- Extinction Operant Conditioning Biofeedback Therapy, Autogenic Training Therapy, and intern and staff training.

He has been involved in neurofeedback since its inception in the early 1990’s.  He has served on the board of directors and is past-President of the Biofeedback Society, one of the top professional organizations for biofeedback and neurofeedback (neurofeedback can be looked at as a specialization of biofeedback).

Dr. de Jarnette has been in private practice from 1973 to the present, specializing in Marriage and Family Therapy, Forensic Issues, and Divorce Mediation and Child Custody Evaluation.  He is also in private practice of psychoanalysis and forensic psychoanalysis, with his forensic practice focusing on civil, criminal, and child custody issues.  He does disability evaluations for personal injury cases, for insurance cases, and all stress-related issues.  He has Board Certifications in Disability Consultation, Traumatic Stress, Forensic Medicine, Forensic Evaluation and Forensic Psychoanalysis, Consultation with Families Regarding Interpersonal Relationships, consultation with Groups as to Team Membership, and Personality Fit for Optimum Efficiency and Personality Congruence.  He was a lecturer in Psychology at Loyola Marymount University, teaching graduate courses in Law and Ethics and in Psychoanalysis and Hypnosis.

Dr. de Jarnette speaks to individuals and groups of people across the United States in a manner that lets them know that he really hears their problems, feels their pain and is there to help them develop their potential, alleviate their pain and live a far richer lives than ever before.

In his presidential remarks to the Biofeedback Society of California, he pointed out that for the first time in history, we are all on the “yellow brick road to evidence-based medicine.”  He continued by showing that the new technologies in brain science through non-invasive neurofeedback and biofeedback can and does significantly “cu re”such disorders as burnout, attention deficit disorder, alcohol and drug abuse and addiction, and a host of other psycho-physiological disorders without the need of medicating someone into a different reality.

There is a balance between the fields of psychiatry, psychology, social work and marriage and family therapists, with a new term known as consilience.  With the aid of this consilience model, which goes far beyond the fields I have mentioned, the helping sciences can act in concert to orchestrate non only health, but optimum resonance of health.  The disease model is outdated, we now have moved into the area of creating joy and fulfillment through consilient human technology.” (Presidential address the Biofeedback Society of California (2005).

Until quite recently, Dr. de Jarnette has reviewed books for the Metapsychology review site and has been an editor for PsyBC, a noted purveyor for continuing mandatory education credits across all the medical and psychological fields.  His focus changed as he joined the expert forensic panel of the Los Angeles County Superior Court Family Law section as a child custody evaluator, an expert in the treatment of abused children, and as a parenting plan supervisor.  With his participation on these three judicial panels he stays in close touch with the pain and suffering of families in crisis as well as individuals in crisis.

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