TFT yielded impressive results in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in a 1995 study conducted by Charles R. Figley, Ph.D. and Joyce Carbonell, Ph.D. of the Psychological Stress Research Program and Clinical Laboratory at Florida State University. This studied compared four new treatment approaches: Traumatic Incident Reduction (TRI), Visual Kinesthetic Dissociation (NPL), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Thought Field Therapy (TFT). TFT stood out from all other approaches. “If this was a horse race TFT would have won hands down”.

Reassessment of brain wave patterns (associated with traumatic memories) immediately after thought field therapy diagnosis and treatment revealed that the abnormal patterns were altered so as to be no longer statistically abnormal. An 18 month follow up indicated that the patients continued to be free of all emotional upset due to the trauma.

Heart Rate Variability was used as an outcome measure for TFT (RRT) in thirty-nine cases presented in October 2001 in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. The cases included TFT treatments for phobias, anxiety, trauma, depression, fatigue, ADHD, learning difficulties, compulsions, obsessions, eating disorders, anger, and physical pain. A lowering of the SUD, subjective units of distress, was in most cases related to an improvement in HRV.

Trauma

In 2008 and 2009, at the request of the Diocese, teams of TFT trainers were sent to Kosovo to treat, train and then re-access caregivers and child victims of genocide. Included were orphans with handicaps and victims of HIV/AIDS. 247 of 249 traumas treated in Kosovo, were treated successfully in a short period of time. One year later the results held up (Johnson, 2001). After several visits to Kosovo, Dr. Skelzen Syka, the equivalent to the surgeon general of Kosovo, made TFT the official therapy of Kosovo. This has led to future requests and teams being sent to neighboring countries. DVD on Rwanda available on request.

TFT (RRT) has been proven to be a solid treatment modality that expedites recovery of battlefield trauma including sleep deprivation, nightmares, day-mares and anxiety in the front lines of Afghanistan as reported by Efland H. Amerson, PsyD, Clinical Psychologist on the front lines.

TFT (RRT) significantly decreased fear of speaking in public as measured by the SUD (Subjective Units of Distress (1-10) self-report scale and the Speaker Anxiety Scale (Schoniger 2004). TFT (RRT) significantly decreased phobia of needles as measured prior to the treatment and month later using the questions on the Fear of Survey Schedule (FSS) related to blood-injection-injury phobia and the Subjective Units of Distress (1-10) self-report scale (Darby, 2002).

Thirty-one immigrants to the United States showed a statistically significant decrease in posttraumatic symptoms as indicated by scores on the Posttraumatic Checklist C, as well as on their Subjective Units of Distress (1-10) self report scale from Thought Field Therapy treatment measured 30 days later (Foulkes, 2002).

TFT (RRT) proved successful as reported by Christina Mayhew, TFT Advanced Practitioner, in the treatment of boys at a local home for troubled youth who were slated to go into a youth detention center or to another foster care home.

For additional information on the large body of available research, contact Dr. Wright.