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Reflections on Professor Charles Figley's Comments as Editor, 23 April 1999
By A Customer
In conversations with both clients and friends, we interact. We give and take. Even when we attempt to remain neutral, we are not. In most instances, this is what is expected. Yet there is a very special population - those who suffer as a result of past experiences - which benefits most from being given the space to speak without evaluative interaction. The elegant simplicity of the TIR procedure itself is counterbalanced to a significant degree by the tightly focused interest and restraint that this approach demands of the therapist who would use it. The Series Editorial Board of Innovations in Psychology offers this book to the field of psychology and to other professions who work with clients haunted by traumatic memories. TIR offers a new way of approaching an old problem: how to resolve emotionally charged memories that surface in dreams, flashbacks, and behaviors or life patterns that the client finds debilitating. The old way involved analysis, reflection, or some other clinical technique that required the therapist to sort through what the client was saying and attempt to help the client reach insight. As you will see in the pages of this book, TIR adopts the new paradigm of psychotherapy: it is brief, client-centered, client-paced. Its clinical successes are clearly defined: traumatic memories are cognitively reprocessed and the client is desensitized.
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