Talk:Energy psychology

• Major wikification is required. Also, NPOV needs to be checked. Have created a first pass on the wikification - however, need someone with subject matter expertise to have a look. Note that the Copy-Ed needs to be checked as well, as the original article appears to be a copy of a paper for publication. evolve 00:00, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Focus

Removed these sections from the article as they appear to be tangential to the subject matter. Some of them also contribute to the NPOV problems. Maybe someone should move them into their own articles? Alaren 01:42, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

According to SDMLB theory, events are encoded in a person's physiology on a cellular/molecular level. These events include both the memory and the emotion attached to it. Good or bad, they can generate specific behaviors, pain and even illness. It is claimed that they reside in energy fields said to flow on unique major neural pathways, corresponding to what some people call meridians.

Acupuncture points are critical spots on the meridians. Proponents of SDMLB claim that a negative experience or a built-up condition causes the body's energy system to get out of balance. Some people use the analogy of an electrical short-circuit. The brain distinguishes between experiential memories and emotional memories and actually processes them differently. Based on the principal that by focusing on the issue and stimulating the major neural pathways, a memory process is initiated causing change by unblocking the emotional short-circuit. This process results in substituting positive emotions for the negative emotions that were previously learned and associated with the issue.

Traumatic events and enduring stress can take a toll on a person’s physical and psychological well-being. The memory and accompanying negative emotions of a stressful incident or condition, at any point in life, can lay dormant for years. When triggered by some present stressful event, it can evoke negative beliefs, desires, fantasies, compulsions, obsessions, addictions or dissociation. It can block the development of positive qualities and spiritual connections, and fracture human wholeness.

An extreme example is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Stress releases hormones such as epinephrine, B-endorphin and ACTH, creating an ideal environment for state-dependent memory, learning and behavior (SDMLB). SDMLB is the channel between mind and body. The physical effects generate information substances that are transduced to the mental levels of the brain. The reverse is also true, through the process of neuroendocrinal information transduction, where information substances can transform the mental experiences and be realized at the organic level.

Adding to years of research by David Walther and George Goodheart (Applied Kinesiology), psychologist Dr. Roger Callahan introduced the “Callahan Technique” in 1985.

Later enhanced through the influence of John Diamond’s Behavioral Kinesiology, it was revised to become Thought Field Therapy. The method was very effective in removing the emotional charge that triggered maladaptive behaviors, phobias and some physical pain.

Although highly effective, the method was generally considered by many to be cumbersome and complicated. It remained a tool for an elite few certified practitioners. Some of Callahan’s students developed simpler protocols in order to allow the methods to be easily learned by anyone. The most widely-used process is the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) developed by Gary Craig in the mid 1990s.

NPOV

Removed the following paragraph as it seems to have NPOV problems--"case study" is just a fancy was of saying "anecdotal evidence." I'd like to see some solid research citation. Alaren 01:44, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

While research is still fairly sparse, formal and informal case studies are being offered by clinicians relating the successful application of energy psychology with depression, anxiety, phobias, PTSD, addictions, psychogenic illnesses, and other psychiatric disorders. Hundreds of case studies exist demonstrating that both self-applied and therapist-assisted uses of energy psychology have led to swift improvement, often in circumstances where conventional psychotherapy has had little effect.

They're "fairly sparse" because no one can duplicate them. When you can't duplicate an effect through scientific means, it's not science. Alaren 17:35, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikification

I've edited for clarity and I've also wikified things a bit more, but that list of techniques at the bottom kind of bugs me... a lot of those listed techniques seem dangerously close to advertisements, especially where wiki articles don't already exist. Can anyone think of a better way to handle it? Alaren 01:45, 8 September 2005 (UTC)