Re: EmoTrance is Psychobabble?

Hi Stephen

For the sake of accuracy I think you will find that the practitioners of EMDR do not class it as an energy therapy. In fact its full name (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) hints at the precision and formality of the technique.

Regards, Julie

--- In emotrance2_at_yahoogroups.com, Gloria Coleman <gloriacoleman953612000@...> wrote:
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> For nearly a century, psychology as moved at less than a snails pace. Patients can go through therapy for years and gain important insights into their mental health. However, they continue in therapy with  little evident change.
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> My first contact with "energy therapies" was with EMDR and the results I saw were amazing. Patients were overcoming blocks that therapy has been unable to change. These changes comes very quickly, a few sessions can accomplish more than many years of sitting in a psychotherapist's office.
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> Psychology has been dragging a loaded sleigh through dry rocky river beds for decades and suddenly they see amateurs and children driving  by with Humvees. Its may be a threat to their livelihood. They may feel uncomfortable to ask themselves, "Has my many years of education and practice been all in vain?"
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> Being used to dragging the loaded sleigh and seeing very little progress in their professions, EMDR, EFT, TAT, and Emotrance must seem bizarre, woo woo, or something to attack at all costs.
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> Yet nearly 90% of all patients see dramatic results and I fail to encounter a single properly trained practitioner of energy therapies to quit and go back to the old unproductive ways.
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> The critics are the ones that have never tried to use an "energy therapy". What "science" misses, the little children clearly see.
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> Stephen Coleman
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Received on Sat 14 Nov 2009 - 02:27:57 GMT