A technique for helping people alleviate grief by enabling them to envision the spirits of their deceased loved ones will be the topic of a Dec. 6 lecture sponsored by UNLV's Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies.

Allan Botkin, a psychotherapist who specializes in the treatment of grief and post-traumatic stress disorders at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Chicago, will discuss how experimentation with rapid eye motions led him to invent a method for treating a person's grief by giving that person a vivid, lifelike experience of seeming to see and converse with a departed relative or friend.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held 7-9 p.m. in the Flora Dungan Humanities Building, Room 109.

For more information, call the office of the Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies at 895-1970.