While we were growing up, all our experiences were recorded in the brain in the form of Eidetic images. These tell our life story as it happened, with all the relevant emotional and physical feelings and ideas that we had while the events were unfolding. They shape the way we see ourselves now, and our world view.

The Eidetic Parents Test (EPT), as developed and refined by Dr. Akhter Ahsen, combines the qualities of a clinical test, a psychiatric interview, and a self -analysis procedure in a single clinical mode. The EPT provides a spontaneous setting in which developmental facts emerge and evolve in the most natural manner. The eidetic parents' images appear to wield enormous control over our minds as long as we remain unconscious of them and do not successfully grow out of their developmental influence. The EPT portrays the parents in their true developmental light, brings thematic issues quickly to the surface, and enables us to experientially recognize the critical link between the difficulties in our developmental past and our problems of today.

Successful recovery from alcohol and drug abuse, according to a leading expert, depends on hope, absolution and new sources of self -esteem. The core of Ahsen's treatment is based on the reinstatement of hope and enthusiasm through the recovery of the "natural high" found in the Eidetic.