in memory of
W.H. Bates, M.D.
1860-1931
W.H. Bates, M.D.
1860-1931
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Article Library
The Most Misunderstood Aspects of the Bates Method
Important elements of the Bates Method that are often misunderstood even by some proponents of it. Mainly concerning how the work has to do with the mind, not the eyes, and the meaning of non-doing.
A Reponse to Philip Pollack's The Truth About Eye Exercises
Addresses the points argued by Dr. Philip Pollack's book that is often referred to as the definitive text that "debunks" the Bates Method.
Why Eye Doctors Dismiss the Bates Method
The reasons eye doctors ignore and condemn the Bates method.
Throw Away Your Glasses (1923)
13 additional articles by Dr. Bates are available at the Bates Method Store
Why glasses are not the answer, and why they must be discarded as the first step to curing poor sight. The truth about sunlight. The use of the memory or imagination to cure imperfect sight. The prevention of myopia in school children.
A Study of Imagination (1922?)
The usefulness of the imagination in the cure of imperfect sight.
A Clinical and Experimental Study of Physiological Optics (1921)
His experiments regarding the agent of accommodation in the eye. The impermanence of errors of refraction. How the results contradict the accepted theories. The practical meaning of the results.
Imagination and Vision (1921)
How all persons, no matter how great their vision problems, have flashes of telescopic or microscopic vision and can utilize the conscious or unconscious memory of it to improve their vision. The short, slow, swing of letters as a measure of relaxation.
Shifting as an Aid to Vision (1920)
The usefulness of shifting as a tool for curing imperfect sight. How proper shifting is always present in the eye with normal sight and absent in the eye with imperfect sight.
Memory as an Aid to Vision (1919)
Utilizing memory to practice relaxation and cure imperfect sight. Different things that can be remembered with benefit, including a black period. The ability to remember a black period as a test of relaxation.
Improving the Sight of Soldiers and Sailors and Relieving Pain (1918)
A detailed suggestion on how the Bates Method can be introduced and used effectively in the armed forces for the cure and prevention of imperfect sight and for the relief of pain.
The Imperfect Sight of the Normal Eye (1917)
How nobody with normal eyes and perfect sight has perfect sight all of the time. Imperfect sight caused by a strain or effort to see. The usefulness of distant, small, familiar letters. How the results obtained justify the use of the method everywhere.
Blindness Relieved by a New Method of Treatment (1917)
A woman suffering from cataract, neuritis, retinitis, glaucoma, myopia, and strabismus. Her blindness was enormously improved by treatment, to the point where she tested as having better than normal vision.
The Radical Cure of Errors of Refraction (1915)
Details of experiments on the eyes of various animals and one live human subject, and the conclusions drawn from them. Conclusions drawn from a large number of observations of the vision of humans. The basics of treatment of myopia and other problems by means of central fixation.
The Prevention of Myopia in School Children (1911)
The Snellen test card as a tool to prevent myopia in school children. How myopia is caused by a strain to see in the distance.
13 additional articles by Dr. Bates are available at the Bates Method Store
Vision as a Metaphor
The relationship between eyesight and consciousness. How all kinds of impaired vision represent stressed ways that a person interacts with his environment.
Working With People's Eyes Means Changing Their Points of View
How vision problems, and the way they're traditionally handled, represent certain perspectives about life. The psychological problems associated with myopia and other vision disorders, and how learning to see needs to involve changing destructive habits and beliefs.
The Reptilian Brain, Dissociation and Seeing from the Core
How the reptilian brain affects the visual system, why it's important to understand the effect, and what can be done about it.
The Psychophysiology of Nearsightedness
His 1978 Ph.D. dissertation. A psychophysiological model of myopia. How Dr. Bates's discoveries should be given serious consideration by the eyecare community, how myopia is more flexible than is generally conceived, and more.