RE: [ET2] Psychiatric...

> Dear Silvia and Fellow Trainers and Practitioners,
>
> I have had a question from a psychiatrist about the
> possibility to use EmoTrance in a psychiatric setting.
>
> Basically I think he wonders if its advisable to use on
> people with psychiatric diagnoses. Or maybe if
> Emotrance has any "curing" effect in these conditions.
>
> Psychiatric diagnoses include a plethora of widely
> different causes and treatments. Is it possible to give
> an answer that covers them all in terms of using EmoTrance?
>
> Best,
>
> Kjell
>
> Lund
> Sweden

Hi Kjell,

I was hoping someone else would take this but as they haven't, for
what its worth, here's my response.

I'd say that the cool thing about ET is of course, that it can be
done virtually conversationally and without ever having to get up
or break your stride in whatever else it is you are doing.

You can just enquire about someone's feelings and where they are
in their body. And then take it from there by how they are
responding to the idea that they may have feelings *stuck* in
their body. If they freak out or don't like it or show resistance
in any shape or form, drop it and go back to what you normally do.
If they start to look rather interested, go, "Hm - what was that
you said?" or go right into it (which happens not infrequently,
interestingly enough) with, "Yeah, I've had this stuck in my chest
forever, now that would be something if I could get rid of that
..." or words to that effect, have a go.

Something that I have done in the past with tricky people is to do
the old, "You know there are SOME people out there who say that we
have these invisible injuries from past events that have never
really healed ..." and wait for a response. With that phrasing, if
someone doesn't like it, you can get straight out of the whole
thing again by saying swiftly, "Well yes of course THEY are idiots
to think such a thing, *I* would never propose this. You're right,
it's rubbish. Let's beat that pillow again ..."

Even with very unstable and/or medicated people, psychiatrists
must talk to clients sometimes (I presume, not being one and never
having visited one). And they must surely develop a sense of what
is going to get the session into major trouble and to go no
further when they get that sense of impending danger of whatever
kind - abreaction, loss of rapport, person freaking out,
withdrawing completely, whatever.

If someone is completely new to the whole realm of treating people
with energy therapies, you could say to them to have a go with
those of their patients who are fond of metaphor work in all its
various guises - they would be the first candidates to test the
water with this method and just see what happens.

As long as it is introduced fairly gently and with all the escape
hatches wide open, and you know to back out at the first sign of
client "resistance", EF must be about the safest thing you could
possibly do with any human being I would have thought.

Which is more than a one liner in the end.

Do we have any psychiatrists here who could shed some light on the
general challenges of their working conditions and profession?

StarFields

           
Received on Fri Dec 13 2002 - 18:50:54 GMT