Francine Shapiro Library: EMDR Bibliography
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1. マギー・フィリップス著 ; 田中究監訳 ; 浅田仁子,穂積由利 - [Phillips, M. (Translated by Tanaka, K., Asada, K., & Hozumi, Y. (2002). 最新心理療法: EMDR・催眠・イメージ法・TFTの臨床例 Saishin shinri ryōhō: Īemudīāru saimin imējihō tīefutī no rinshōrei - [Finding the energy to heal: How EMDR, hypnosis, TFT, imagery, and body-focused therapy can help resolve health problems]. 春秋社 Tōkyō: Shunjūsha.
Language: Japanese
Format: Book
Abstract: A groundbreaking book that applies the principles of energy psychology and medicine to mind/body healing. Eastern healing focuses on correcting imbalance so that qi (life force energy) can flow freely again. This book proposes that various therapies can similarly address energies in mind/body systems and restore health. These tools can open inner, healing pathways that have been frozen by stress, trauma, and unresolved developmental issues.
Keywords: TFT Hypnosis Imagery Body-Focused Therapy
2. Barrett, S. (2003). Mental health help: Procedures to avoid. Quackwatch.
Language: English
Format: Other
Abstract: Many types of practitioners who profess to treat mental problems are engaged in questionable practices. The following procedures should be avoided.
Keywords: Skeptics Auditory Integration Training (AIT) Doman-Delacato Treatment Facilitated Communication Neural Organization Technique (NOT) Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) Neurolinguistic Programming NLP Neurotherapy Optometric Visual Training Past-Life Therapy Routine Personality Testing Stimulation of False Memories Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
3. Cartwright, L. (2000, September-October). Case Studies: Expanding our tool kit: A new technique that compliments TFT and EMDR. Family Therapy Networker, 24(5), 71-82.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract: In recent years, increasing numbers of therapists have discovered the effectiveness of neurologically based therapy techniques, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Thought Field Therapy (TFT), not only for trauma, but for a wide range of problems, including anxiety, anger, grief and phobias. Like most therapeutic approaches, however, they provide remarkable results for one client and little or no results for another, no matter how skilled the therapist. Even more mysterious, they can significantly help a client with one problem, but not with a different problem. For instance, Sarah, age 40, had been suffering from depression for five years. The depression was triggered by the death of her father, loss of a good-paying job due to downsizing and her fianceĀ“'s breaking off their engagement--all within a one-year period. After six months of increasing anxiety and worsening depression (accompanied by low energy, disinterest in life and withdrawal from social situations), Sarah entered therapy. Biweekly sessions for the next three years, which frequently included EMDR, significantly reduced her anxiety, but did not alleviate the depression. Nor did antidepressants. Years before, I had had a similar experience. EMDR had sharply reduced my obsessive-compulsive symptoms, but didn't help my depression. TFT eliminated recurring anger, but also didn't help my depression.
In the course of five years of research into neurologically based approaches, I happened upon a working hypothesis that explains such inconsistent results. The side-to-side eye movements of EMDR that activate the left and right hemispheres of the brain seem to help people resolve problems based on a lack of communication between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. The tapping, or front/back stimulation of acupuncture points, in TFT is effective when there is a lack of communication between the front and back of the nervous system (controlled by the energy center, well known to acupuncturists and martial artists, that lies below the navel). And since we are three-dimensional creatures, I hypothesized that some problems stem from a lack of communication between the top and bottom of the nervous system as well, which I correlate with the brain and the enteric nervous system of the digestive tract (the source of gut feelings). Working from this hypothesis, I have also developed processes to reintegrate the top/bottom dimension.
I have found that although certain emotions tend to be based within a given neurological dimension (indecisiveness is often in left/right, anxiety in front/back and depression in top/bottom, for example), a client may experience any emotion as a block within any dimension or combination of dimensions. As a result, depending upon both the client and the specific problem being addressed, a therapist might need to use techniques that facilitate integration of the left/right, front/back and/or top/bottom dimensions of the nervous system. When a client is blocked within two or three dimensions of the nervous system, working within just one dimension will sometimes activate healing across the entire nervous system. If this does not happen, it is then necessary to work in the remaining dimensions.
Ā From these hypotheses I developed a system called Shifting Consciousness through Dimensions (SCtD), which provides therapists ways to assess the dimension(s) the client is blocked in, processes to identify, if necessary, which dimension to start with and specific integrating techniques for each dimension.
Keywords: Thought Field Therapy TFT
4. Gallo, F. P. (1996, January). Reflections on active ingredients treatments of PTSD, Part 1. Traumatology, 2(1), 7-12.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract: This two-part essay summarizes the therapeutic procedures presented at The Active Ingredients in Efficient Treatments of PTSD Conference at Florida State University, May 12-13, 1995, and delineates some possible salient change-producing ingredients germane to these approaches.
5. Gaudiano, B. A., & Herbert, J. D. (2000, July/August). Can we really tap our problems away? A Critical Analysis of Thought Field Therapy. Skeptical Inquirer 24(4), 29-33, 36.
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract: Thought Field Therapy is marketed as an extraordinarily fast and effective body-tapping treatment for a number of psychological problems. However, it lacks even basic empirical support and exhibits many of the trappings of a pseudoscience.
Keywords: Thought Field Therapy TFT
6. McGoldrick, J. (1997). Invisible force. Common Boundary.
Language: English
Format: Magazine
Abstract: Of course, not all therapists who learn TFT stick to it exclusively. Many combine talk therapy with both TFT and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), in which a client recalls a traumatic memory while moving his or her eyes in a prescribed pattern. While both therapies apparently break up long-held patterns, EMDR is usually described in terms of physiology, not energy. EMDR, practitioners say, reconnects the brain's neural networks that have been isolated by trauma.
Keywords: TFT Energy Psychology Theory Practice
7. Oster, M. A. (2003, January). Finding the energy to heal: How EMDR, hypnosis, TFT, imagery and body-focused therapy can help restore mind-body health, by Maggie Phillips. New York: Norton, 2000. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 45(3), [2 pages].
Language: English
Format: Journal
Abstract: In Finding the Energy to Heal, Maggie Phillips provides, in one source, a paradigm for modern psychotherapy. This approach isn't simply the learning a number of therapy techniques, but integrating a number of therapy models into a logical and coherent style. She states the importance and value of her approach as follows, "...healing moments that have occurred do not come from any specific modality. They appear to arise from a fluid, ever-changing coming together of all the available healing resources that are assembled when we sit together in contemplative focus on their departure from health" (pp. xi-xii).
Keywords: Book Review
8. Phillips, M. (2000). Finding the energy to heal: How EMDR, hypnosis, TFT, imagery, and body-focused therapy can help restore mindbody health. (1st ed.) New York: Norton. xviii, 276 pp..
Language: English
Format: Book
Abstract: I have found that more traditional models of psychological healing, such as self-object relations, ego psychology, cognitive behaviorism, and developmental psychology, along with theories of trauma, dissociation, and attachment, are invaluable in helping to identify the general patterns of disharmony that can activate illness. Once my clients and I have sketched the broad outlines of where and how their pathways to healing may be blocked, then we can use the relatively more precise implements of hypnosis, EMDR, imagery, and body-focused therapies to reopen them again. The basic strategy illustrated throughout this book, then, is one of combining traditional psychological models for assessment with special tools to activate energy shifts that can rebalance the mindbody system.Three kinds of common stressors associated with problematic health provide the framework for this book: (1) General stress-related symptoms; (2) Psychophysiological symptoms that result from posttraumatic stress; (3) Stress connected with organic conditions. [Adapted from Text, pp. xiv, xv] [Pilots]
Keywords: Stressors Survivors Hypnotherapy Ego State Therapy Body Psychotherapy Thought Field Therapy Cognitive Therapy