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Twenty-five years of progress: Twenty-five more?

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This address outlines important steps for ensuring the future of biofeedback and applied psychophysiology. These steps are contained in the acronym PHUTRE, wherein PH stands for Political activism of the Hard and fast variety, U represents United front, T encompasses Transfer of knowledge (from clinician to researcher, researcher to clinician, and from both to students in training), R refers to our Research base, and E represents the Excitement that our field has the potential to generate.

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This paper is based on the Presidential Address delivered at the annual meeting of AAPB, Atlanta, Georgia, March, 1994. Please address correspondence to Frank Andrasik, Ph.D., Center for Behavioral Medicine, The University of West Florida, 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola, Florida 32514.

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Andrasik, F. Twenty-five years of progress: Twenty-five more?. Biofeedback and Self-Regulation 19, 311–324 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01776731

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