A paper published in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry in 1994 by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., changed forever the way the psychotherapy field thinks about trauma treatment. Called “The Body Keeps the Score,” it persuasively argued that to effectively treat PTSD, talk therapy is not enough. Therapies that directly impact the way the brain and body are altered by trauma are required. In the subsequent two decades, a variety of body-oriented therapies have been successful in treating PTSD as well as for other deeply ingrained psychological conditions. Among the most powerful of these approaches is “energy psychology.” Dr. van der Kolk will give the opening keynote address at the 17th Annual Canadian Energy Psychology Conference.

Energy Psychology is a psychotherapeutic as well as self-help approach that – as it is most commonly practiced – combines imaginal exposure and other cognitive methods with the stimulation of acupuncture points by tapping on them. The most well-known among its various formulations are Thought Field Therapy (TFT) and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT).

The standard protocols are very easy to learn. The key to your effectiveness will be based on your existing clinical skills. The approach adds for you a somatic component that rapidly changes the neural pathways involved in a target problem. It is that simple. A special track for therapists new to the approach will be offered at the Conference.

Energy Psychology works by stimulating energy points on the surface of the skin which, when paired with various psychological procedures, send signals to the brain that deactivate limbic system arousal, decrease the production of stress chemicals such as cortisol and adrenalin, and rapidly alter targeted neural pathways.

More than two dozen peer-reviewed, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) indicate that the approach produces strong, rapid, lasting outcomes for a variety of conditions. More than 7000 veterans have received energy psychology treatment for PTSD through the non-profit Veterans Stress Project. An RCT studying a sampling of these individuals (n=49) showed that 86% went from above to below PTSD cutoffs on the military version of a standardized inventory of PTSD symptoms within six sessions. Supportive research reviews have appeared in highly respected journals, including those published by the American Psychological Association. Two studies demonstrating the efficacy of the approach have appeared in the world’s oldest (1874) peer-reviewed mental health periodical, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, whose editor is a former president of the American Psychiatric Association.

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Changing the Score the Body Keeps:
The Power of Energy Psychology

WHAT IS ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY?

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