At the 75th Annual CPA Convention in Vancouver, Dr. John Connors gave talk entitled, Canada’s Most Versatile Psychologist: Dr. Peter Suedfeld, where he highlighted Dr. Suedfeld’s background, history and groundbreaking research in the field of Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST).
Dr. Peter Suedfeld
Dr. Peter Suedfeld, professor emeritus in the department of psychology at UBC, has researched how human beings adapt to and cope with novelty, challenge, stress, and danger. The research has three major aspects: laboratory and clinical studies on restricted environmental stimulation (for example, in flotation tanks); field research on psychological and psychophysiological concomitants of working in extreme and unusual environments such as space and polar stations; and the archival and experimental study of information processing and decision making under uncertainty and stress.
