Dear Norman,
Sorry for my delayed response to your important question. I have asked
the people who actually did the research to give me the actual
statistics as I would be interested to have them myself.
In the mean time I can tell you what they told me.
Three comparative studies have been done, the two most important (most
extensive) of which where done by Steven Bisbey and his ex-wife Dr. L.B.
Bisbey. The first was a PhD comparing TIR to Imaginal Flooding and
involved a sample of 57 subjects. The second study was corporately
funded and involved over 50 subjects and compared TIR, EMDR, and
debriefing (I might have mixed up the third one with imaginal flooding).
Statistically, TIR came out top in both studies although the other
techniques all worked too.
There is also an immense quantity of anecdotal evidence. People do find
it astonishing to work with. It is a very elegant method based on well
established psychological principals. In fact Pamela Harper of this very
list wrote a couple of days ago
"I have read Brief Therapy for PTSD [Steve Bisbey's book] and attended
training about it given by human givers and have sucessfully used the
techniques there in. (I'll try most things once as i am more an
experiencial learner than an academic) One client finished up laughing
about the situation that had traumatised her in the first place and
could not, after the session, understand why it had caused her so much
anxiety in the first place. A minor trauma but important to her. You
don't get better succeess than that."
It is typical to hear stories like that even with severe trauma.
All the best,
Henry
P.S. Steve Bisbey is giving a talk on 25th April and there is a one day
TIR workshop 18th May.
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Dear Henry,
I should be most interested to hear from you about the research backing
your claim that TIR is a useful trauma reduction methodology. In
addition, have you any statistics, (take up, outcome, evidence based
practice etc), to support your claim that TIR is "one of the leading
methods for resolving PTSD".
Norman
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