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traumatic incident reduction

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traumatic incident reduction,
n a meridian-based psychotherapy that involves repeated recall, or “viewing,” of a memory that a client experienced as damaging. Used to help those with post–traumatic stress disorder, the sessions are nonhypnotic, one-on-one, and highly structured.


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95 Paperback Explorations in metapsychology series RC552 In this update of the 2005 edition, Volkman (TIR Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan) introduces Traumatic Incident Reduction as a desensitization technique derived from humanistic psychology for treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
There is also a strengths/weaknesses type of analysis of Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) in this chapter.
In 1989, with aid from a technique known as Traumatic Incident Reduction, he was able to reclaim his life; My Tour In Hell spares no detail in recounting the horrors of war and the devastation left in its wake.
 
 
 
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