Emotional Freedom Techniques
Emotional Freedom Techniques (German technique (s) der Emotionalen Freiheit ) is the name of a therapeutic concept from the field of " energetic psychology " and represents a method for the relief and treatment of stress and mental disorders by stimulating acupressure points (Tsubos). The effectiveness of this alternative medical method of tapping acupressure has not yet been scientifically recognized.
backgrounds
EFT claims to work as a technique from the growing field of so-called “energetic psychology” in contrast to classical psychotherapeutic methods with the “energy system” of the human body and thereby combine neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), meridian theory and kinesiology .
EFT has been in its present form and with the same name by Gary Craig developed in the US, where the basic assumptions of this treatment method at the origin of the ideas of traditional Chinese medicine over an existing in the body's energy system ( meridian system ) and the ideas of applied kinesiology reference to take.
Craig, who was originally an engineer and worked as a “personality trainer”, learned a method called Thought Field Therapy (TFT) from the American Roger Callahan . a. Treated phobias within a short time. Craig simplified or shortened the treatment process, linked it with elements of NLP and applied kinesiology and called this method " emotional freedom techniques " (EFT).
Serious scientific evidence of the claimed effects is not known.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gary Craig: The EFT Manual . Energy Psychology Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-60415-066-7 .
