Energy Psychology (Innovations in Psychology)

285 Pages·2004·1.69 MB·English

by  Fred P. Gallo

Second Edition
ENERGY
PSYCHOLOGY
Explorations at the
Interface of Energy, Cognition,
Behavior, and Health

Second Edition
ENERGY
PSYCHOLOGY
Explorations at the
Interface of Energy, Cognition,
Behavior, and Health
Fred P. Gallo
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Preface to the Second Edition
The first edition of Energy Psychology was released in July 1998. However, my
learning and the writing began in late 1992 while I was studying kinesiology and
later traveling the United States teaching professionals about the many wonders of
energy psychology. I was on a mission to make this treatment approach widely
available, not just for the people I treat at my clinical practice in Hermitage, Penn-
sylvania. And increasingly, this vision has become a reality not only in America but
also throughout many areas of Canada, Europe, Australia, Central and South Amer-
ica, South Africa, Asia, and more. This proliferation has been due in part to the
publication of the first edition of Energy Psychology as well as related articles and
books, supportive research on the effectiveness of energy psychology, and the ded-
ication of therapists and trainers who have been willing to take up the torch and run
with it.
I have attempted to prepare this second edition to reflect significant aspects of
the field, while remaining true to the original edition. However, energy psychology
is growing so rapidly that no volume of this size can do it justice. There are many
approaches that I am only marginally familiar with, since I have been spending much
of my time teaching and developing the approaches that I refer to as energy diag-
nostic and treatment methods (ED¥TM) and energy consciousness therapy (ECT).
Yet my edited volume, Energy Psychology in Psychotherapy (2002), provides chap-
ters on key approaches to energy psychology, theory, and applications. That book
complements this one.
While the chapter titles in Energy Psychology remain the same, I have expanded
the sections on scientific underpinnings, clinical research, manual muscle testing,
related energy psychology approaches, and professional resources. Additional algo-
rithms and descriptions of other energy psychology approaches also have been added.
Chapter 1 briefly discusses some psychological paradigms or models: psycho-
dynamic, environmental–behavioral, cognitive, systemic–cybernetic, neurologic,
and biochemical, and paves the way to the energy paradigm with a discussion of
electrical neurotransmission, regeneration, L-fields, and quantum mechanics.
Chapter 2 explores four therapeutic methods that have demonstrated efficiently
in treating post-traumatic stress disorder and phobias. Those methods are
visual/kinesthetic dissociation (V/KD), eye movement desensitization and reprocess-
ing (EMDR), traumatic incident reduction (TIR), and thought field therapy (TFT).
Plausible active ingredients of these methods are discussed in some detail with
particular focus on the active ingredient of bioenergy.
Chapter 3 investigates the body’s energy system, primarily focusing on acupunc-
ture and some of the research that is supportive of the existence of bioenergy systems.
This chapter also explores morphogenetic fields, homeopathy, and flower remedies,
as well as empirical investigations of prayer.
Chapter 4 covers the origins of energy psychology in applied kinesiology and
traces a number of offshoots, including Touch for Health (TFH), clinical kinesiol-
ogy (CK), and educational kinesiology (Edu-K). The influence of applied kinesi-
ology in the work of John Diamond, M.D., and Roger J. Callahan, Ph.D., is also
briefly reviewed.
Chapter 5 specifically highlights many aspects of the psychotherapeutic approach
of John Diamond. His approach is the first to utilize applied kinesiology and the
acupuncture meridian system to diagnose and treat psychological problems, com-
bining this approach with psychodynamic understandings.
Chapter 6 discusses the system developed by Roger J. Callahan, which is referred
to as thought field therapy. This chapter introduces the notion of therapeutic
sequences or algorithms, energy diagnostic procedures, psychological reversal,
energy toxins, and briefly touches on thought field therapy research. Additionally, a
thought field therapy trauma treatment procedure is covered along with reviews of
a few trauma cases.
Chapter 7 is entitled “The Energy Therapist’s Manual.” It covers client prepa-
ration and debriefing issues such as rapport, pacing, belief in the treatment, attune-
ment, scaling, explaining the method, manual muscle testing, thought field therapy
treatment points, psychological reversal, criteria-related reversals, neurologic disor-
ganization corrections, energy toxins, etc. Additionally, sequences of treatment
points, referred to as therapeutic algorithms, are offered for a wide array of clinical
problems including specific phobias, trauma, addiction, anxiety, panic, obsessive-
compulsive disorder, clinical depression, anger, guilt, and so on. This section
includes many thought field therapy and related therapeutic algorithms. This chapter
also provides an introduction to other energy psychotherapy methods including
emotional stress release (ESR), frontal/occipital (F/O) holding, emotional freedom
techniques (EFT), Tapas acupressure technique (TAT), energy diagnostic and treat-
ment methods (ED¥TM), negative affect erasing method (NAEM), neuro-energetic
sensory technique (NEST), and healing energy light process (HELP).
Finally, Chapter 8 covers the current research on energy psychology and also
explores clinical issues and proposes some avenues for future research. The question
about the relevance of treatment point sequencing is raised, and approaches to
evaluating thought field therapy and other energy psychotherapies are suggested with
regard to phobias, trauma, addiction, generalized anxiety, dissociative identity dis-
order, anger-rage, and a number of other areas. Integration of energy psychotherapies
into one’s practice is also discussed.
I have included an appendix — “Manual Muscle Testing Uses and Abuses” —
which explores this important topic in more depth than in the earlier chapters of the
book. I have also added an energy psychology glossary, as well as information on
other resources.
I originally wrote Energy Psychology with the intention of providing a profes-
sional introduction to the field that would be of interest and benefit to psychologists,
psychiatrists, psychotherapists, other health care providers, and students. I also wanted
to interest researchers in examining these treatment approaches that I have found to
be so highly effective. These remain my sincere intentions with this second edition.
Years ago, when I was a college freshman, I read a book by Erich Fromm in
which he expressed the hope of inspiring young people to enter the helping profes-
sion. His words encouraged and inspired me to enter the field of psychology and
psychotherapy, and for this, I am grateful. Similarly, I am hopeful that this book
will inspire and encourage young people to study, apply, and further advance the
concepts and methods covered here for the welfare of all people. I’m optimistic that
together we can help to make this world a healthier place.
Fred P. Gallo, Ph.D.