Dear Mark,
One of the 'Power Therapies' is an NLP technique.
http://www.tir.org/metapsy/sorensen.htm . Visual/ Kinesthetic
Dissociation (V/KD). The link is an interview of someone who trained in
all for power therapies that Charles Figley brought together for his
study.
The main developer of TIR Dr. F. Gerbode was familiar with Gestalt.
However I think he was more impressed with Rogers, Freud, Polanyi, Kuhn
and Tart. TIR is based on a freudian concept of chains of traumatic
incidents feeding each other. Its person centred side is quite Rogerian,
although different in that TIR is more directive. In terms of
effectiveness I would say TIR was a large stride forward, rather than a
refinement. There are of course simlarities between most techniques. I
don't know if anything is truly from another planet. On a theoretical
level TIR has lots of old, well established ideas in it. Pavlov is
another influence. It is on a practical level that it comes into its
own. The method of teaching and applying it is very well structured. It
is so clear what to do that an experienced practitioner can almost
enable a person to overcome their trauma without having to think about
it. They define very clearly what does or doesn't make a session
effective, and the model works a treat.
I have heard the name but am not familiar with William Emerson. Do you
have an links to article on his work?
Thanks,
Henry
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Henry
Welcome.
Having had a quick look through the material at: http://www.tir.org/ I
find myself wondering how these "Power Therapies" differ substantively
from some of the NLP techniques. I can also see Gestalt and Psychodrama
in there. I'd be interested to know if TIR has developed independently
or is it developed from these earlier models. Is it an
evolution/refinement or a 100 Monkey effect? Also have you come across
William Emerson's work on Stress and Trauma? Mark
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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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