Biography of Author Hugh D. Fulcher Mr. Fulcher has spent the last 20 years developing mind healing and improvement techniques. His techniques are most useful to the over-stressed or depressed or those with manic depression. His two major techniques are "mind modeling" to understand what is happening to overstressed minds and "psychophysiotherapy" which is mind healing through unique physical exercises and mental stress and relaxation techniques.

Most overstressed people feel helpless and need something to hold on to. Developing one’s own mind models provides a stressed patient with a sense that he is in charge of understanding his own recovery. Mr. Fulcher presents mind models as examples for readers to build upon to give themselves an inner feeling of assisting in their own cure.

Mr. Fulcher’s book, Emotional Mind Modeling, develops healing techniques and extends thinking into metaphysics. A video is available that promotes mind healing techniques developed in Emotional Mind Modeling.

Psychophysiotherapy is a new psychiatric technique that will become as important as psychotherapy and psychoactive pharmacology. The feelings of excitement during mental change and healing are stronger than from psychotherapy but not as strong as from psychoactive pharmacology. Psychiatric drugs can bring fast and powerful changes to the human mind but dosages must be maintained or effects are temporary. Psychoactive pharmacology also can have brain numbing and other side effects.

Psychotherapy and psychophysiotherapy are true mind healing techniques that cause structural changes to the brain. Psychoactive pharmacology causes only temporary chemical changes to the brain. (Of course, hallucinogenic drug use and drug overdose can cause permanent physical damage to the brain.) The mind is the function of the brain. The brain must be physically changed for real healing to occur. A most important part in this new therapy is to always do what the doctor prescribes.

J Childhood is important to emotional wellbeing. A caring, innocent country boy is raised and protected by a loving family and community. There is no crime and no one asks a question that requires a direct "No" answer. This is a gentle supportive and sharing environment similar to that of "Walton Mountain" a few miles north. The author’s dad was a supervisor at a local chemical plant until the author was seven years old. Later, Mr. Fulcher grew up mowing yards, working in his dad’s friendly country grocery store, playing baseball and football, and enjoying math and science in school.

J His mother and dad were supportive of everyone in the small community of Temperance, VA. His mother, a loving first grade teacher, seemed to love her students as much as she loved her own children. His dad always visited the sick. His philosophy was that laugher was the best medicine and to always support the local man. Love and caring was bountiful in that community. Those were the days.

Everyone in the community was either Methodist or Baptist. Our family belonged to the small close-knit Ivy Hill United Methodist Church family. Our faith was simple but strong.

Early on Mr. Fulcher’s brother, older by two years, was somewhat aggressive and dominating. His brother outgrew this trait by high school and continued education to receive a doctorate’s degree in physics. His brother , a physics professor at a university, also does theoretical elementary particle physics research.

Mr. Fulcher graduated from Va. Tech with a BS degree in physics, a minor in math, and a master’s degree in nuclear engineering. While at Va. Tech, Mr. Fulcher passed a rigorous examination to become a nuclear reactor operator. Mr. Fulcher’s thesis was on reactor core modeling and design through improvement and use of a computer program originally developed by Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Mr. Fulcher began working with computers when few people used computers.

Mr. Fulcher taught physics, engineering, and computer courses as a full time instructor at Va. Tech. in Danville, Va. at Danville Community College. Next, he became a nuclear reactor core designer, and a core monitoring and core follow engineering supervisor for Babcock and Wilcox -- one of the large nuclear reactor design companies.

L He married a wife from a disruptive family. Her mother could only be described as deranged and cruelly destructive, especially, to her own family. His wife was affected by an insecure and destructive childhood. There was a change immediately after the marriage. The wife became distant and cold. She had conflicting and confusing language and body language. She controlled rather than supported.

His simple, honest county background had not prepared him for such twisted and damaging behavior. In his country community, everyone seemed to work hard to increase the confidence and worth of one another.

His family did not believe in divorce and he had no idea what to do, He was "trapped" with no way out. He gave so much and she took so much that he emotionally gave out. Being trapped emotionally led to a deep depression that evolved into manic depression. Both afflictions are so painful. Feeling trapped and having no way out was the cause for Mr. Fulcher’s manic depression and interest in healing the mind. Healing is one part of the goal. The other part is to help those with a damaged childhood before they damage others. It is no secret that those damaged during childhood will damage those close to them. Mr. Fulcher writes from personal experience and experimentation.

J As a child he had spent time with his uncle who was a well-known neurosurgeon. From many conversations with his uncle and with his science background, he believed that he could understand how the mind works and become a significant part in healing his periodically unstable mind. This he thinks he has done. Mr. Fulcher thought that he could achieve this in a few years. However, the path has been longer than expected. It has taken creative work for twenty years to develop a cure for the uncertain feelings when the mind is becoming unstable and going toward mania and eventually insanity. One must experience and study one’s own insanity to build a more solid sanity.

Mr. Fulcher moved to Richmond to get away from a wife that was destroying him. In Richmond, he worked as a nuclear reactor simulator designer and as a reactor safety engineer. A reactor safety engineer models the reactor core and the entire reactor system (pumps, piping, pressurizer, condensers, heat exchangers, turbines, temperatures, flows, etc.) to determine if all components work together within design limits. (Because of his experience with reactors, Mr. Fulcher often speaks of "mind" design limits.)

After Richmond, he worked with Arizona Public Services as a software system engineer. As you might guess, he worked with computer programs and tools to design, and to verify safe operation of, nuclear reactors. Mr. Fulcher was divorced during this period.

He went back east to Rockville, MD, to be near his children. Here he performed safety analysis for commercial nuclear reactors and worked for the Department of Energy in developing design methodology for the new production reactor. A production reactor produces nuclear bomb materials. Thankfully, due to the breakup of the Soviet Union, he lost that job as the new production reactor was cancelled. He briefly worked at Savannah River Westinghouse in South Carolina performing safety analysis and licensing.

Mr. Fulcher returned to his home in Lynchburg to write, market, and speak on his book, Emotional Mind Modeling. Between duties of running a small company, he has worked with several small software companies as a programmer and with a high-voltage transformer company as a high voltage tester and a procedure writer. He has worked for IBM global services at Gaithersburg, MD, and EDS at McLean, VA as a software developer and tester.

J Last but not least, Mr. Fulcher has spent the last eight months renovating his farmhouse. This has been as much fun as writing Emotional Mind Modeling.

J In the future, Mr. Fulcher anticipates speaking about Emotional Mind Modeling and its healing techniques. He wishes to complete his manuscript, The Clear Mind which completes the description of healing techniques and of helping those who have been so brutally damaged in childhood. The Clear Mind is a mind cleared of all childhood and adult trauma scars or effects. He also anticipates software and nuclear consulting.

J Mr. Fulcher has two children. After four years at the University of Virginia and two years in graduate school at the University of Kansas, his son, Keston, has been accepted into the psychology doctoral program at Temple University for the next academic year. After four years at the University of Virginia, his daughter, Kara, has been accepted into medical school at Eastern Virginia Medical College for the next academic year. The whole family is involved with both mental and physical healing.

Mr. Fulcher is included in several US and one international "Who’s Who."