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TI: Using the power of belief in acupuncture and holistic medicine:
Case studies
AU: Vachon-D
SO: AM-J-ACUPUNCT. 21/1 (33-40) 1993
AB: Drawing on his experience in acupuncture, psychoneuroimmunology and Neuro-Linguistic
Programming, the author provides practical techniques and case studies on how to help patients
discover unhealthy beliefs and how to empower them to create healthy alternatives. The techniques
can be easily integrated into the therapeutic routine and are useful for enhancing the patient's
general ability to meet life's challenges.
Title:
Images of Trauma._(book reviews)
Authors: Muss, David
Citation: The Lancet, May 15, 1993 v341 n8855 p1266(2)
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Subjects: Books_Reviews
People:
Healey, David
Rev Grade: A
Reference #: A13976751
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Excerpt: Full Text COPYRIGHT Lancet Ltd. 1993
Post-traumatic stress disorder, at long last, has been clearly identified by Healey as one
of the most important neuroses of the past decade. Note, for instance, the complete
absence of post-traumatic stress disorder from the index of the 1990 edition of the Oxford
Textbook of Psychiatry. The underlying message is that, since ist definition in 1980, this
condition has given us the chance to stop looking for biological, mechanical, genetic, or
other reasons to explain the presence of psychological difficulties, and that what we must
do is just listen to what each patient is telling us, for therein lies the answer.
Healey not only mentions neurolinguistic programming (NLP) but also indicates that
through ist use images are focused on and then actively manipulated. I reported the
successful application of the NLP rewind technique as adapted to post-traumatic stress
disorder in 1991 and, although I am unable to describe precisely how it works, Healey
offers an excellent explanation as to why the technique is so successfull. Rightly, he
observes that "when talking about recurrent intrusive images there is a major problem,
which is that declaring ourselves verbally is essentially a univocal communication that in
any point in time can only abstract certain aspects of extreme consciousness. In part,
therefore, the difficulty in talking about recurrent imagery will be that there is always far
more going on in our conscious state than we can ever describe. The problem is like
commentating on a football match, sometimes the most important events happen at a
different part of the stage to that which you happen to have an eye on at the moment". In
the rewind technique, the traumatised patient does not say anything to the therapist but
rather looks at the images mentally and goes through them forwards and then backwards.
It is probably by covering the whole stream of consciousness rather than having to
verbalise one instance to the therapist that the technique manages to inactivate the whole
of the recurring distressing sequence of events. The end result is that of restoring
competence to the patient.
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