Beyond Trauma (eBook)

Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction

Victor R. Volkman (Herausgeber)

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2006 | 1. Auflage
360 Seiten
Loving Healing Press Inc (Verlag)
978-1-61599-913-2 (ISBN)

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TIR, or Traumatic Incident Reduction, is a unique regressive, repetitive, desensitization procedure--highly focused, directive, and controlled, yet at the same time wholly person-centered, non-interpretive, and non-judgmental. Developed by Frank A. Gerbode, M.D., Gerald French, and others, TIR is best known for its use as an extremely effective tool in the rapid resolution of virtually all trauma-related conditions, including PTSD. TIR can also address many other DSM-IV diagnoses beyond trauma including: adjustment disorders, acute stress, traumatic bereavement, dysthymic disorders, major depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, somatization disorders, sexual abuse, and phobias.
Acclaim for Beyond Trauma: Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction
'Beyond Trauma is an excellent resource to begin one's mastery in this area of practice.'
--MICHAEL G. TANCYUS, LCSW, DCSW, Augusta Behavioral Health
'I have found Beyond Trauma to be exceptionally helpful in understanding and practicing TIR in broad and diverse areas of practice, not just in traditional trauma work. The information from various points of view is really priceless.'
--GERRY BOCK, Registered Clinical Counselor, B.C. Canada
'Beyond Trauma offers PTSD sufferers a glimpse at a light at the end of the tunnel, while providing mental health workers with a revolutionary technique that could increase their success rate with traumatized clients.'
--JENI MAYER, Body Mind Spirit Magazine

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TIR, or Traumatic Incident Reduction, is a unique regressive, repetitive, desensitization procedure--highly focused, directive, and controlled, yet at the same time wholly person-centered, non-interpretive, and non-judgmental. Developed by Frank A. Gerbode, M.D., Gerald French, and others, TIR is best known for its use as an extremely effective tool in the rapid resolution of virtually all trauma-related conditions, including PTSD. TIR can also address many other DSM-IV diagnoses beyond trauma including: adjustment disorders, acute stress, traumatic bereavement, dysthymic disorders, major depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, somatization disorders, sexual abuse, and phobias. Acclaim for Beyond Trauma: Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction "e;Beyond Trauma is an excellent resource to begin one's mastery in this area of practice."e; --MICHAEL G. TANCYUS, LCSW, DCSW, Augusta Behavioral Health "e;I have found Beyond Trauma to be exceptionally helpful in understanding and practicing TIR in broad and diverse areas of practice, not just in traditional trauma work. The information from various points of view is really priceless."e; --GERRY BOCK, Registered Clinical Counselor, B.C. Canada "e;Beyond Trauma offers PTSD sufferers a glimpse at a light at the end of the tunnel, while providing mental health workers with a revolutionary technique that could increase their success rate with traumatized clients."e; --JENI MAYER, Body Mind Spirit Magazine

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I have changed. I got back to my self and to be the person that I was before the incident. I got to see and deal with things that happened to me and sort my feelings out so I can deal with it. I learned a lot about myself and other people. Also I learned to not be responsible for things that others do to us, but for ones that we do to others. I also feel strongly that if I need it, help is out there, it is my responsibility to find it and live life the way I want to.

— Domestic Violence survivor after TIR (VSC Miami)

Foreword by the Editor

Who Should Read this Book

This book defies some of the conventional pigeonholes for trauma and therapy books because it is targeted towards two distinct audiences: people with a history of trauma who are looking for resolution of their past and mental health professionals who are interested in a powerful and proven technique to resolve the effects of past traumas. It is also my fervent hope that TIR practitioners will recommend this book to their clients as a means of educating them in the process of discovery they are about to embark upon.

How to Read This Book

The structure of the book is encyclopedic in that each chapter is self-contained and requires no prior experience. Even so, I would recommend completing Trauma and TIR (Ch. 1) first for a basic grounding in the material. Then you may wish to jump to one of the application chapters (2-5, 7, 9, 11-13) which show specifically how Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) has been successfully applied to various experiences (veterans, crime victims, terrorism, etc.). Mental health practitioners with backgrounds in other brief trauma techniques might want to read about Traumatology (Ch. 6), Research Projects (Ch. 8), or Integrating Therapies (Ch. 9) early on. In either case, the underpinning philosophy of Metapsychology (Ch. 14) will add to your understanding of why TIR works as it does.

The Nature of Conversations

Since this book consists primarily of conversations with people of many different backgrounds and experiences, the viewpoints each person expresses are their own and don't necessarily represent the viewpoint of any other individual or group. You may read opinions of various treatment methods with which the developers of those methods might disagree. The intent of the book is to share this broad range of viewpoints and you are encouraged to draw your own conclusions.

The Terminology of Trauma

Traumatic stress, like any other area of scholarly study, has developed its own language to describe symptoms and treatments. I have taken care to make the book as accessible to lay people as it is to professionals. Please use the index at the back of the book to find definitions of unfamiliar terms. Generally, a term is defined in the text the first time it is used.

Certified Trauma Specialist (CTS)

You may notice that quite a number of the contributors to this book have the CTS designation after their names. The Association for Traumatic Stress Specialists was formed in the 1980’s to provide organization, continuing education and recognition to people working to alleviate the effects of traumatic stress. ATSS offers three kinds of certification depending on the education and experience of the applicant. The CTS designation was created for counselors, clinicians, and treatment specialists who provide individual, group, and/or family counseling and/or intervention. Among other criteria, CTS requires 240 hours of trauma treatment training and 2,000 hours of trauma counseling and intervention.

We highly recommend ATSS for their excellent annual conferences and their unique certification program. Learn more at: www.atss-hq.com.

About the Book

It has been my very great pleasure to collect and edit stories of how Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) has made a difference in people's lives. In the 20 years since Frank A. Gerbode began developing the technique known as TIR, it has spread as far as Australia and Russia and from Alaska to Brazil. TIR has been successfully applied by not only psychologists and social workers but also by ministers and even lay trauma survivors, such as Vietnam veterans. Furthermore, it has proven its usefulness in the full spectrum of human woes: from birth to bereavement, war veterans to widows, children to car crash victims. TIR is used every day in a variety of locales beyond the therapist's couch including domestic violence centers, jails, and even the frontlines of disasters.

I believe the multiplicity of voices and experiences that you find in this book makes the case for the broad workability of TIR. At the time of this writing, this is the first book to embrace the experiences of dozens of practitioners and clients in varied milieu and weave them into an argument for efficacy. If this book had been merely the work or experience of a single author, its voice would have been considerably weaker.

TIR allows practitioners to address trauma more deeply while simultaneously resolving trauma quickly. This allows practitioners to be more effective and able to handle more clients. Anecdotally speaking, compassion fatigue is virtually unknown among TIR practitioners. The following quote from Alex Frater will testify the power of this:

“In the early 90’s, my practice involved 70 hours/week of face-to-face therapy in which the number of my clients/patients with trauma related matters was growing alarmingly. Through increasing medical referrals, my practice was progressively becoming unmanageable, and I began to seek more efficient ways of dealing with trauma. By chance, I came across an article written by Dr. Robert Moore of Florida, extolling the virtues of a new approach to resolving trauma known as Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR). I went to Menlo Park in 1994 to train at Moore's recommendation with Gerald French and Frank A. Gerbode, MD.

The results I have obtained since returning to Australia with this innovative therapy are nothing short of miraculous. TIR has done nothing to reduce my workload, but it has increased my efficiency enormously. My trauma-related patients now number something like 45/week, up from the 20 or so that I was seeing at the time I went to California, and at the same time TIR has, in fact, enabled me to produce better, faster, and much more thorough results in dealing with trauma and related matters than have any other techniques at my disposal. Quite fantastic, really. More than worth every bit of time and expense of traveling to America for the training.”

Alex D. Frater, CTS

Campbelltown, Australia

If TIR existed whole and independent of everything else, it would still be the marvelous tool that you'll learn about in this book. In fact, TIR is part of Applied Metapsychology, a larger area of study developed simultaneously by Dr. Gerbode. Along the way, I'll be introducing a few other of the key procedures available in Metapsychology (most often, that of Unblocking). The philosophy of Metapsychology is developed further in the final chapter of this book as well as Dr. Gerbode's own book Beyond Psychology: Introduction to Metapsychology,3rd Ed. (1994).

One of the challenges of editing lies in the classification and categorization of the stories presented herein. Keep in mind that these divisions are arbitrary, and though a practitioner may be highlighted in a particular area of trauma, it doesn't imply that such a practitioner is limited to that area, in general practice or specifically with using TIR. For example, John Nielsen has had great success in working with jail inmates, but their traumas are not unique to prisoners. In one case, the root trauma of an inmate related back to experiences as a civilian in the Bosnian conflicts.

It's also important for you to understand what this book is not about. Specifically, it's not a “how to” manual or instructional guide of any sort. Although you can learn the complete theory from the textbooks of Frank A. Gerbode, M.D., Gerald French, and Bisbey and Bisbey, the only way to fully achieve the potential results of TIR is to attend a TIR Workshop (see Appendix B).

At this point, you may be wondering why I personally decided to write this book given that a perfectly fine technical and training environment already exists. In the past 20 years the good word about TIR has not spread outside certain small circles of Traumatology and into widespread public knowledge. Prior to 2003, my primary efforts to promulgate TIR consisted of creating the Traumatic Incident Reduction Association (www.TIR.org) website in 1996 and supporting my wife's practice.

In early 2003, I heard a call-in program on National Public Radio about Vietnam veterans and their families suffering the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They discussed the full gamut of flashbacks, panic attacks, unaccountable rage, depression, substance abuse, and other aspects of PTSD. The expert's consensus was basically “Well, you just try to be patient and understand what they're going through and maybe over time they'll get better.”

This sort of scarred-for-life mentality is touted on the six o'clock news after each and every disaster. As such, the public at large is left with the impression that really nothing can be done about the effects of trauma. I believe what's missing, the presence of which would make a difference, is a book presenting the possibility for healing that TIR offers.

The Conversation Continues

I'm still actively seeking stories from clients who have been...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2006
• Reihe/Serie: Explorations in Metapsychology
• Reihe/Serie: Explorations in Metapsychology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Schlagworte: Abuse • Anxiety • Bereavement • Death • Grief • Medical • Mental Health • nursing • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Psychology • psychopathology • PTSD • Self-Help • Sexual Abuse • Trauma
• ISBN-10: 1-61599-913-2 / 1615999132
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61599-913-2 / 9781615999132