Survivorship:
successful integration
A.
Traumatic Event
B.
Period of Safety
C.
Attempts to integrate
the traumatic event
Chronic Victimization
and PTSD:
Unsuccessful integration
Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR)
Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) is a simple, systematic and effective technique for permanently reducing or eliminating the effects of traumatic events.
TIR is a focused, anamnestic (memory recovery) technique which allows the client to be freed of flashbacks, anxiety, recurring memories and nightmares associated with a traumatic incident.
TIR is 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. Though based on concepts long familiar to the profession, TIR and its unique protocols represent an entirely new and dramatically effective paradigm from which to view and address trauma-related conditions and many other less obviously trauma-related symptoms and conditions, such as adjustment disorders, acute stress, traumatic bereavement, anxiety and somatization disorders, sexual abuse, and phobias.
Trauma, unfortunately or not, is a part of life. Traumatic events come is all shapes and sizes, and effect each of us in different ways. However, there appears to be a common progression in the human processing of a traumatic event. Following a period of safety, where the event has ended and the experience is left to be integrated into the self and the world. Here is where many victims cease to make progress in their quest to integrate the event. If a victim is unable to reach or sustain a sense of safety - to experience a traumatic event as past, and fully completed - then the process of recovery becomes stagnant.
Etiology of posttraumatic stress disorder
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The therapeutic goal for a victim with PTSD is to move from the chronic stage of victimization back into the previously unsuccessful acute stage since that is where assimilation and accommodation occur. Dr. Frank Gerbode, founder of TIR and author of Beyond Psychology: an introduction to Metapsychology, states that what must be assimilated and accommodated from a traumatic incident are one's reactions to the incident - including one's thoughts, sensations, feelings and perceptions. He further states that for any trauma to remain emotionally charged and unresolved, "part or all of a traumatic incident [must remain] uninspected."
TIR is a method of sequentially going through the experience a number of times (moving back to step C. in our diagram) to integrate those aspects of the trauma that have been left unresolved. This is called "viewing."
Once a person has used TIR to fully and calmly view a painful memory, life events no longer trigger it and cause symptoms.
TIR is unique:
· It is client centered. The client directs the areas that
he or she wants to work on, at a speed that is comfortable.
· It is open-ended. The TIR session addresses one traumatic
issue or theme and continues to resolution.
· It is non-evaluative. The TIR facilitator does not evaluate,
interpret, diagnose or reframe the client's experience.
· Insights are gained by the client through a unique unlayering
process that facilitates profound personal insights and realizations.
TIRA have been approved to provide continuing education credits (CEUs) by the APA and NASW for training in TIR.
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