Product Description

Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) explores a powerful regressive, repetitive, desensitization procedure becoming known in the therapeutic community as an extremely effective tool for use in the rapid resolution of virtually all trauma-related conditions.- Replete with case histories and accounts of actual TIR sessions, this book provides a ,camera-level" view of TIR by describing the experience of performing TIR.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #972103 in Books
• Published on: 1998-08-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 216 pages

Customer Reviews

Reflections on Professor Charles Figley's Comments as Editor
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.