ChristophML Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Hello, everyone what do you think about the Emotional Freedom Technique which is developed by Gary Craig. He said that you can reduce a lot of psychological symptoms (trauma, depression, anxiety, anger and so on) by tipping on special meridian points (Acupuncture) of the body. There are some studies (Clond, 2016; Kalla et al. 2017; Gaesser & Karan, 2017; Gueguen et al., 2015; Rancour, 2016) which say that there is an effect but is the concept plausible? Kind regards, Christoph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manticore Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 (edited) As acupuncture has been pretty thoroughly debunked, then I can't see any possibly of this being any more than yet another crackpot idea. Edited August 9, 2017 by Manticore Too many fingers on keyboard error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristophML Posted August 9, 2017 Author Share Posted August 9, 2017 Thanks for your answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrP Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 The effect they are recording is probably the placebo effect at work. Some people insist that that if a drug or a procedure works as well as a placebo then the object, drug, procedure or prayer works... They are missing the point... we know that the placebo effect is real - we also know that you have to beat it significantly to lay any claim to your drug/procedure/prayer/magic works. With this guy's claim (sorry - didn't have time to read the lot) - he is claiming a lot of psychological symptoms can be cured... this is not unexpected as the placebo effect seems to work better for psychological symptoms such as pain and depression anyway. I did not read the paper - did they compare the effect against the placebo? (sorry - of course they did or they wouldn't be taken seriously at all - did it significantly out perform the placebo?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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