Minimizing distressĪ man well into old age is referred from the local emergency clinic. Having had many clients who have had the same good benefits as the man in the presented case, I hope that curiosity coupled with a critical look at the evidence will encourage clinicians to make use of the techniques described. Before describing some newer empirical research, I will present a case study to illustrate its usefulness. Over the years that have elapsed, I have continued to use this method, not always with success, but I have certainly often found it a very useful tool at my disposal. I should say that Lindgren was frank enough to write what many others thought, but were more careful of saying explicitly.Īs a consequence of the debate, the Norwegian Psychological Association withdrew its support for Thought Field Therapy courses, stating that they should not support training in methods without scientific documentation ( Norsk Psykologforening, 2009). It was as if I had proposed to embark on something professionally unethical.
Approving Thought Field Therapy, he wrote, meant allowing anyone to call themselves a psychologist. I mentioned the scepticism that I first encountered when I introduced Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to Scandinavian clinicians in the early 1990s ( Dyregrov, 1993), and how over time this method has come to be regarded as one of the most efficient and well-documented post-traumatic therapies (i.e., Chen et al., 2014).įollowing the publishing of the 2009 article, a colleague ( Lindgren, 2009) wrote in the aforementioned journal about how unscientific the method was, and suggested that if we were to be open to Thought Field Therapy we had to be open to everything. I wanted to make clinicians interested in learning more about the method. In 2009, I published a small paper in the journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association ( Dyregrov, 2009) pointing out that despite its rather meek academic merits, I found Thought Field Therapy very useful for dealing with problems originating from trauma or loss. Han har utgitt en rekke bøker, blant annet Sorg hos barn (2.
Atle Dyregrov er professor ved Senter for Krisepsykologi ved Universitetet i Bergen, og spesialist i klinisk psykologi ved Klinikk for krisepsykologi.
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