Operation New Outlook

Relieving the personal pain and institutional burden of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

We send them off to war as soldiers and receive them back as shells of their former selves. Closed off. Fearful. Trapped in their memories, desperate to find relief.

Unfortunately, so many who come home never really come home. They bring their war with them. The statistics are alarming: at least 20 veteran suicides a day, more than 7000 a year (20% of all US suicides). An estimated "need population" of nearly 460,000 exhibiting disproportionately high rates of domestic violence, divorce, child abandonment, alcoholism, drug abuse, and homelessness - all linked to PTSD.

PTSD has been the life's work of Dr. Barry Goodfield and The Goodfield Institute. What he conceived 35 years ago as a pioneering psychotherapy treatment for Holocaust victims has morphed into The Goodfield Method™ a sophisticated cognition-based procedure that produces dramatic trauma relief for battlefield veterans within 6-8 weeks - medication-free. So transformative a technique that it may be the only psychotherapy procedure to have ever earned a US patent.

More than 200,000 hours of learning and experimentation have put The Goodfield Method™ on the brink of final success. The Goodfield Institute knows it. We feel it. Which is why we - mostly vets ourselves have formed Operation New Outlook (ONO), a 501 (c) (3) non-profit to bring Dr. Goodfield's work to fruition.

The sole mission of ONO is to help The Goodfield Method™ gain the national acceptance it deserves. To do so, the method must first be proven to the satisfaction of the US Department of Veterans Affairs - which will require a robust testing process versus a panel of conventionally treated VA patients. Since the test will employ advanced technologies - including fMRI/DTI measurements, video, thermographic images, clinical analysis, and close supervision of subjects, it will be expensive to conduct. $250,000 will be required.

ONO intends to pursue multiple avenues for raising the necessary funds, including grants, corporate sponsorships, foundation support, and online crowd funding.

Testimonials

"I strongly support Dr. Goodfield's effort to secure the necessary VA cooperation that ONO (Operation New Outlook) needs to conduct the test and rollout of his method. The plan (The Goodfield Method™) has been shared with Veterans Administration Secretary Bob McDonald in a lengthy one-on-one meeting In Washington, DC on August 25, 2015. The matter was subsequently assigned to Dr. Shereef Einahal, White House Fellow, Office of the Under Secretary for Health. I deeply appreciate your careful consideration of this plan to save veterans lives."
Trent Franks, U.S. Representative for Arizona's 8th Congressional District

"As a combat veteran of two wars, Korea and Vietnam, I have seen the impact of PTSD up close and personal. The PTSD problems facing the Veterans Administration are serious. The Goodfield program will do much to help those veterans to heal".
Carl G. Schneider, Major General USAF (Ret)

"I have known Dr. Barry Goodfield well for nearly 40 years. I have done workshops with Dr. Goodfield and studied his methods. I have also observed his work with patients. I think he is an outstanding clinician who is able to work with traumatized patients who do not respond to conventional treatments".
Glen O. Gabbard, MD, PA Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis,
Professor of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

"I believe the research which Dr. Goodfield wishes to undertake and the revolutionary technique he proposes to introduce for the treatment of veterans with PTSD has the potential to create dramatic and positive change within those individuals. Dr. Goodfield's work could have a profound effect on the way this debilitating disorder is treated"
Professor John Schlacter, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

"Dr. Goodfield is one of the best psychotherapists in the field of neurotic disease"
Dr. Marcel H. Mignot, founder Vither Hyperthermia BV

"I am very much aware of many of the programs and initiatives that have been developed to treat PTSD. Based on my personal and professional experience, I believe the Goodfield program has the potential to significantly improve the method by which our injured veterans suffering from PTSD can be assessed and treated. The credibility and expertise of Dr. Goodfield is impeccable. Dr.Goodfield is an international expert on PTSD with over 40 years of experience. He is widely recognized as an expert in his field".
Hugo E. Salazar, Major General U.S. Army (Ret)

"I have worked with the Goodfield Institute often over the years. Their work is amazing".
Mort Rosenblum, former Editor of the International Herald Tribune

"Dr. Goodfield has developed a method of understanding one's basic psychological issues, basically short-circuiting the years of therapy we normally confront to know and change ourselves...