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What if we could resolve childhood trauma early, rather than late? 

We are understanding more and more about how early traumatic experiences affect long-term mental and physical health: 

Physical impacts are stored in muscles and posture 

Threats of harm are stored as tension 

Overwhelming emotion is held inside 

Negative emotional patterns become habit 

Coping and defense mechanism become inflexible 
What if we could resolve childhood trauma before years go by and these effects solidify in body and mind? 

In a perfect world, we'd like to be able to shield children from hurt and harm. In the real world, children, even relatively fortunate ones, may experience accidents, injury, illness, and loss of loved ones. Children unfortunate enough to live in unsafe environments live through abuse, neglect, and threats to their well-being and even their life. 

What if we could resolve childhood trauma fully, gently, and completely while the child is still young? 

We Can. Read Children and Traumatic Incident Reduction and find out how!
 

"This book is a must for any therapist working with kids. Naturally, it focuses on the approach of Traumatic Incident Reduction, but there is a lot of excellent material that will be useful even to the therapist who has never before heard of TIR and may not be particularly interested in learning about it. The general approach is respectful of clients, based on a great deal of personal experience by contributors as well as on the now extensive research base supporting TIR, and fits the more general research evidence on what works". --Robert Rich, PhD
 

Book #2 in the TIR Applications Series. Series Editor: Robert Rich, PhD

Loving Healing Press

Explorations in Metapsychology

Children and Traumatic Incident Reduction: Creative and Cognitive Approaches

Various authors

"When accessed with the specific cognitive imagery procedure of TIR, a primary traumatic incident can be stripped of its emotional charge permitting its embedded cognitive components to be revealed and restructured. With its emotional impact depleted and its irrational ideation revised, the memory of a traumatic incident becomes innocuous and thereafter remains permanently incapable of restimulation and intrusion into present time." --Robert H. Moore, Ph.D.

 Traumatic Incident Reduction: Research & Results provides synopses of several TIR research projects from 1994 to 2004. Each article, in the researcher's own words, provides new insights into the effectiveness of Traumatic Incident Reduction. The three doctoral dissertation level studies that form the core of this book investigate the results of TIR outcomes with crime victims, incarcerated females, and anxiety and panic disorders respectively (Bisbey, Valentine, and Coughlin).

 Both informal and formal reports of the "Active Ingredient" study by Charles R. Figley and Joyce Carbonell of Florida State University show how TIR stacks up against other brief treatments for traumatic stress, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) et al.

 A further case study by Teresa Descilo, MSW informs of outcomes from an ongoing project to provide help to at-risk middle-school students in an inner-city setting.

 An introduction by Robert H. Moore, Ph.D. provides background into how TIR provides relief for symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and firmly establishes the roots of TIR in the traditions of desensitization, imaginal flooding, and Rogerian techniques.

 This book contains the most detailed list of Traumatic Incident Reduction and Metapsychology resources yet published. This appendix includes references to dissertations, books, selected journal articles, AMI/TIRA newsletter compendium, web resources, and the TIR and Metapsychology lecture series (audio). Includes index.

 "We are very impressed with the power and simplicity of TIR in helping trauma sufferers work through their frightening experiences and find great relief."
 - Charles R. Figley, Ph.D., editor of TRAUMATOLOGY 

 "Being able to watch someone go from confusion to certainty, from sadness to happiness in a single session is a wonderful privilege. It is invigorating. I get the same satisfaction and joy from teaching Metapsychology techniques to others."
 - Lori Beth Bisbey, Ph.D., Chartered Counselling Psychologist

 "TIR does not require years of collegiate study to pre-qualify the provision of assistance to others. The efficacy of TIR is not contingent on the unique talents of a particular facilitator. The procedure is standardized and does not require continuous adjustments."
 - Wendy Coughlin, Ph.D.

 Learn more at www.TIRA.org

Traumatic Incident Reduction: Research and Results

Marian K. Volkman

Metapsychology, as developed by Frank A.Gerbode, MD, is a subject rich in philosophy and practical application. Much of Applied Metapsychology makes use of one-on-one session work to achieve the individual's personal goals - from relieving past pain to living more fully to expanding consciousness.

 Life Skills: Improve the Quality of Your Life with Metapsychology, highlights key factors from the subject and illuminates the ways that these factors can be used on a daily basis for improved quality of life, as an individual, in relationships, and in the wider world. Learn handy and usually quite fast techniques to assist another person after a shock, injury or other distress Learn simple methods for expanding your awareness on a daily basis Gain a deeper understanding of relationship and how to strengthen and nurture any relationship Learn the components of successful communication, what causes commu nication to break down, and how to repair breakdowns Gain vital keys to understanding those behaviors of other people that have previously been inexplicable to you Gain the ability to more accurately predict certain patterns of human behavior, and to be more effective in dealing with the negative ones Learn an effective tool for making important life decisions Explore human potential

 Praise for Life Skills
 "A concise, eminently-readable, empathic, joy-filled, hands-on text. Life Skills is a must for therapists and their clients." 
 -- Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"

 "A serious, impressive, and thoughtful work with one objective in mind: teaching how to reach one's full potential."
 -- James W. Clifton, M.S., Ph.D., LCSW

 "If you take the trouble to do the exercises the way the author suggests, they will change your life." 
 -- Robert Rich, M.Sc., Ph.D., M.A.P.S., A.A.S.H

 From the EXPLORATIONS IN METAPSYCHOLOGY SERIES

Life Skills: Improve the Quality of Your Life with Metapsychology