Traumatic incident reduction is a brief, one-on-one, method which is said to permanently eliminate the negative effects of past traumas. It involves repeated viewing of a traumatic memory under conditions designed to enhance safety and minimize distractions. As with NLP it seems to have been developed from Scientology auditing. The therapist or counselor offers no interpretations or negative or positive evaluations, but only gives appropriate instructions to the client to have him view a traumatic incident thoroughly from beginning to end.
NLP interventions add more to the process by having the client rewind the "movie" whilst saying "whiiiiiizzzzzzzz" (in order to add the auditory sense to the ritual). Note - NLP does not use the term - sense -, instead they use the pseudoscientific obscurantism - "representational system". The idea is that the "engram" is removed or dispelled from the neurology of the client.
There's no credible evidence to support the intervention according to the empirical research. There is an interesting historical pattern emerging especially in the use of jargon (obscurantisms) among these "power therapies".
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This must be the shortest article I have ever seen on TIR. And it switches to NLP midstream. Though worlds apart I do know practitioners using NLP with good results. It grew out of hypnotherapy and I am amazed to see how much research has been carried out on Hypnotherapy. I am not sure why the fascination for researching hypnosis but the results overwhelmingly demonstrate a high efficacy for the practice. Did you know you can be hypnotised while riding an exercise bike with your eyes open? Researchers, it seems have all the fun. Strange isn’t it how stage hypnosis kind of muddies the picture.
As for TIR, it appears to be the quiet achiever. I would hope that this blog owner, who is trying to warn people away for sham practices, may 5 years on take the opportunity to have a closer look at TIR. Not backed by any well financed money machine or spread like a franchise it has simply being slowly adding practitioners and training trainers under a strict international association that seems more concerned with standards that popularity. This appears to now be paying off:
Magic Bullet
Psychologists, trauma therapists and others are taking the training and gain professional development points recognised by the APA (American Psychologists Association); one of the many centres using TIR has been funded by the city in Miami since the late 1990s where crime victims who have struggled for years with PTSD have seen a turnaround at the centre and in a short time. Practitioners are careful not cast it as a quick fix or a magic bullet yet graduates of TIR programs certainly make big claims about the difference it makes and insist the results are lasting.
Evidence Based
The research done on TIR was over many months thoroughly investigated by the US government agency SAMHSA who looked closely at what was done, the methodology and the conclusions drawn. This rigorous process saw TIR being added in early 2012 to SAMHSAs he National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices. The ability to make a demonstrable difference to our suffering returned vets and the victims of trauma in situations like crime and abuse has got to be a good thing and support is increasingly forthcoming as a consequence.
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