Deranged Psychotherapies

Sometimes I visit people who have previous contact with Martians psychotherapy as I am concerned not only the potential damage they can do about patients, but by extension the credibility of my profession. Psychiatrists have the great advantage of being seated on a recognizable pattern and defined (at least biologicist, vast majority, another thing is if it is true what is intended): the other auditors of chemistry or physiology usually not be confused with them (Bach flowers, reiki, rolfing). However, in the nebulous realm of psychotherapy, not even necessary to de facto be a psychologist, in fact, although most of those I know and try to cling to the psychopharmacology, it is interesting to consider the fact if the training MIR psychiatry itself legitimate to use psychotherapeutic resources. Much more tragic is, obviously, that any trainee of inner healing puts a rug and two cushions in the living room of his house and doing psychotherapy has been said. This intrusion does not necessarily bother me because it is ineffective (as some do, another day I extend to the placebo effect and nonspecific effects) or because I removed a piece of cake (I like mine and smugly and I'm not greedy), but because it devalues ​​what we do by not offering these amateurs a minimal scientific basis of knowledge or a psychopathological context, and I am offended when someone puts me is the same bag (although it is true that clinical psychology has yet to be able to justify more and better his own doing, but I think we have some basis).

Therefore, searching, I have dared to suggest psychotherapies whiff of scam (attention, often in the hands of seemingly qualified psychologists and psychiatrists, and I suppose that even in the role of believers, not scammers) are forms of course psychotherapy without empirical justification or validity (there are models of therapies and techniques without rigorous empirical testing but at least contain an apparently valid model that I dare not to become completely mocked sad, at least today).

-Rebirthing (rebirth) of L. Orr, healer. Through the breath, heal the trauma of birth. "It is the art of learning to breathe from the Breath Itself. Rebirthing Also Means to unravel the birth-death cycle and to Incorporate the body and conscious mind Into the Life of the Eternal Spirit - to Become a conscious expression of the Eternal Spirit. This healing the eight biggies Involves of human trauma, birth Which are the trauma, the parental disapproval syndrome, specific negatives, the Unconscious death urge, karma from past lives, the religion trauma, the school trauma, and senility, etc. (L Orr) ". There is trauma to stop a car but luckily all heal hyperventilating.

-Rebirthing (II): Sondra Ray and Bob Mandel, disciples of the former. More to breathe, the idea is that "It is in Divine Energy Taking Into your body in Such a Way That God is making love to you. (S Ray)" It seems that this version includes the use of sheets and pillows to create a species of the uterus to stimulate the process. I was gonna say something funny, but then I read that in 2000, Candace Newmaker, 10, suffocated in Colorado during a rebirthing session in the context of attachment therapy (see below) for your condition that motivated lack of linkage of love in your relationships. The technique was banned in Colorado. The rebirther are in the bag.

-Primal Therapy: A Janov, psychologist. The neurosis is caused by the repressed pain of the trauma of birth. Re-experience the trauma cure pain and releases pent-up energy. The primal scream is the Great Liberator. They signed Lennon and Yoko in the 70, but in the end (when they lowered the pot) was cracked before completion of therapy (ideally lasts a year or two) and ended up putting birth.

-Therapy for the Grito, D Casriel, a psychiatrist, is a cry more powerful than the last, apparently. Attention to the move described by one participant: "Casriel's scream therapy divide the group in two halves, an A and B part. All the A-persons lay on Their back on a thick mattress, while the B-persons act as Their assistants. This is done by the B group HAVING members "laying on top" and Being Embraced by the A-members. This is by the Underlying Psychologically Experienced person to person as Having a Big Teddy bear on top of him. A teddy bear I Who Feels I can trust and embrace and Who Gives him a sense of security. This Facilitate the A person's emotional release. By giving instruction to the A persons to repeat loudly some, for Them Adequate, emotional hard hitting KEY sentences like "I am worth loving" or "I do exist", and at the Same Time to start screaming incite Them, activates an emotional chain reaction of Extremely high intensity in the group. It is a real an emotional "canned-tin-opener" technique. howeve the Presence of the B Contribute That a person avoids a complete break down. " (Including as a security system).

-Past Lives Therapy of B Weiss. The dr. Weiss, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Mount Sinai in downtown Miami, said: "Past Life Therapy is a scientifically proven evidence that reincarnation exists." Books sold like hotcakes. From now emerging leads that rely on hypnosis (very interesting technique on the other hand) go through the whole space-time continuum to land on the mind of a psychiatrist at Harvard (which will be Harvard ...) John Mack proposed that many of patients were not mentally ill but had been abducted by aliens (his ex-wife also, apparently, but maybe that was a legal move for divorce).

- Reparenting Jacqui Schiff, social worker, died in 2003. He believed that schizophrenia was caused by cruel mothers who had failed in the bonding process. Schiff developed a variant of transactional analysis that promoted complete regression to childhood, tended to diagnose all patients as hebephrenic schizophrenic, and legitimized the use of corporal punishment, threats with weapons, or that the therapist gave the patient's chest ( full and varied pack). Although Schiff fleeing justice over to India and England, milder forms of sadism and stupidity survive among his followers, as therapies Inner Child Healing (Bradshaw, priest, I guess it does not breastfeed).

- Therapy Therapy Attachment Z or R Zaslow, a psychologist. Autism, and any inaccuracies in the attachment comes from repressed anger (against the mother, mainly). Physically hold the child, and encourage their anger, until it is exhausted and docile, is the basis of therapy. This includes pressing the stomach, put your fingers in the mouth and pour water, and generally anything that might cause unrestrained anger. Then extended adults use, and problems from eczema to blindness, until he was stripped of license in California after torturing a woman for 12 hours in 73. That changed residence, named him Therapy Attachment (attachment therapy), and set up a center where they are lined up who died in an association 2001.En http://www.childrenintherapy.org/ actively fighting to prohibit this therapeutic style, and others like reparenting, and set out a list of fatalities and survivors.

Repressed memory therapy, L Brown, a psychologist, and others. Essentially consists of assuming that all psychopathology is rooted in unconscious repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. Retrieve and address these unconscious memories repressed (through hypnosis, group therapy, visualization or trance writing) is the path to healing. Just as the abuse is true in some cases, it is doubtful that remains absolutely inaccessible to consciousness, and generally take the same unconscious repression, abuse rates are assumed, and the benefit that has no memory recovery any scientific basis and has been seriously questioned since the APA and the British College of Psychiatrists. In fact some patients have gone to court with their therapists to induce them to believe in child sexual abuse without any real basis (in this case I have seen some, but not legal complaint).

-Attack Therapy usually in groups of adolescents addicted or therapy difficult. It humiliated, abused and mistreated the patient by the therapist or co-therapy. Type training camp, a classic of military psychology refined and perfectly portrayed by Kubrick in Full Metal Jacket.

Nude-therapy, several, but notes Kaufman marriage, which in its residential center for mentally ill open for 30 years (until 2005 I think), worked them naked and having sex that videotaped. Include them because they took the government (Medicare) approximately $ 216,000 for their therapeutic work (I guess the officials did not know what they did, but that's the question).

-Emotional Freedom Technique by Gary Craig, an engineer and champion of fairy tales. It stimulates a series of points called meridians by tapping with a finger while focusing on the emotional issue disturbing. Work with the model of "emotional distress is a blockage in our energy system." Virtually cures everything, and even in his American website urging you to tell your doctor you are using these techniques because that will totally or partially unnecessary use of medication, surgery or radiation (?). Inspired by the very rigorous work of Callahan (psychologist) in Thought Field Therapy (Thought Field Therapy): thoughts create energy fields that affect the body. A derivation yours Speech Therapy allows healing over the phone, but you'd have to teach him at its center, and costs 120,000 turkeys, but then you have the world at your feet. It seems that full post-Katrina, New Orleans flourished like hotcakes, even in institutional settings such as hospitals.