From Deseret News archives:
Beware of weird, wacky psychotherapy treatments
So you open the Yellow Pages, or you go on the Web. But there you find hundreds of possible answers a dizzying array of "revolutionary new" options from which to choose, many of which claim to offer pain-free, trouble-free solutions to all of your problems.
Here are just a few of the therapies available to the consumer for depression or anxiety: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, Emotion Freedom Techniques, Be Set Free Fast, Neurolinguistic Programming, Dolphin-Assisted Therapy, Past Life Therapy, Recovered Memory Therapy and Alien Abduction Therapy.
Plenty to choose from. But here's the problem: You have no way of knowing which are legitimate and which are fraudulent. You have no standard by which to make comparisons.
A few years ago, I came across a psychotherapy being heavily promoted on the Internet that promised to eliminate depression and anxiety in minutes. Developed by California psychologist Roger Callahan, it is called Thought Field Therapy and is a kind of psychological acupuncture in which therapists instruct patients to tap on parts of their bodies in a prescribed formula to correct disturbances in their "energy meridians."
Callahan claimed once on a BBC documentary that he had "cured" more people of phobias than all other clinicians in history put together. Then, from his California residence, he proceeded to treat a woman in England over the telephone for a phobia of mice. She hung up on him after tapping on herself as he prescribed and feeling no better. Afterward, Callahan suggested that the woman's T-shirt might have been energy "toxic" and that the treatment would have worked if she had simply removed her clothing.
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