I am SO tired of the endless conveyor belt of pseudoscientific gimmicks in this field.
Newest contender in the snakeoil cesspool is Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT), which purports to cure people by pulling the trauma mojo out of their bodies:
>AIT clients move their hands slowly down through a sequence of 13 energy centers on the front of their bodies while repeating a brief phrase that describes the trauma being treated. The placement of the client’s hands forms a circuit of electromagnetic energy that moves the traumatic emotions, sensations, behaviors, and cognitions that are the post-traumatic effects of that trauma out of the energy centers and the areas they govern, and then out of the body.
Amazingly it "often completely cures in just one session" because all bad feelings instantly vanish when the "traumatic energy" is removed🙄:
>Moving his hand down the energy centers while repeating this particular phrase lets his body, psyche, and spirit know that he wants to remove the traumatic energy about this particular incident and no other—AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS. Cliff repeated the process twice before all the traumatic energy from that trauma was completely gone. Once it was gone, his emotions—shock, anger, and grief—were gone as well. Had we used any of the more traditional methods, e.g., venting, chair work, developing insight, drawing, simply talking, or the like, the likelihood is that it would have taken a number of sessions, not the twenty minutes it took that day.
The fact that Boards allow licensees to hold this out to clients as a treatment is dereliction of duty, and I'm sick of it. In every state, the rules governing healthcare specify that we are only allowed to proffer evidence-based interventions. Surely I can't be alone in hating this trend. It demeans the profession. Ugh. Rant over :(