Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 432 pages
- Published by: W. W. Norton & Company
- Edition: 1st Edition September 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0393703460
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0393703467
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Book Dimensions:
10 x 8.7 x 1.3 inches
- Weighs: 2.7 pounds
Product Description
This is the first book to provide a complete overview of the burgeoning field of energy psychology. Written by major proponents of the field, the chapters cover a wide range of cutting-edge treatment applications, including Thought Field Therapy (TFT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Energy Diagnostic and Treatment Methods (EDxTM), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT), and more.
About The Author
Fred P. Gallo is a clinical psychologist and the author of Energy Diagnostic and Treatment Methods.
Reader ReviewsAfter close examination of this text, I conclude that from a Chinese/western medical perspective that this book is an attempt to make pseudoscience look convincing in order to support the marketing campaign of the authors. From a position of Chinese medicine and medical physiology expertise, they have failed. Energy therapy is based largely on false assumptions about the brain. It uses a "thought field" approach as the main background theory. However, thought fields do not exist. The book explains energy as in positive or negative terms. However there are no physical similarities or correlates between normal energy and thought energy. Any physics scholar will know that energy does not work that way. There are know known physical correlates with new age notions of thought energy. The book makes feeble attempts to argue for the existence of these spurious and non recordable energy fields. It steers clear of paranormal claims that are usually associated with energy medicine, but it is still pseudoscience Qi is more accurately conceptualized as a philosophy, not a science, and its physical existence is not empirically supported. The book is completely unconvincing in arguing otherwise. In addition, they note that while acupuncture, a procedure used to correct the flow of chi, has been shown to provide some minor analgesic effects, its utility has not been demonstrated for treating illnesses or diseases. Chinese medicine uses a combination of treatments that work together. The authors' proposed mechanisms of action are all spurious pseudoscience. There are simpler far more plausible reasons that may explain the few cases of success with the energy therapies techniques. These include placebo effects resulting from the mere expectation for improvement, demand characteristics, therapist enthusiasm and support, therapist-client alliance, and effort justification (i.e., the tendency to report positive changes in order to justify the effort exerted), and psychological manipulations such as distraction, suggestion, acceptance, and dissociation. These reasons are dismissed by the author, in preference for erroneous notions about meridians, thought energy, and the flow of Qi. The authors even claim that when the techniques fail it is because a negative person has "undone" them. Considering that these techniques may potentially distract the patient's attention away from a serious illness such as cancer, and that the energy therapists in general do not cater for this eventuality, sensible consumers need to think more than twice before embarking on this pseudoscientific treatment. The book may convince you to open your mind for a while. However, please do not be so open minded that your brain falls out. Regards Dr Lee
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