What research exists to support the effectiveness of TIR?
As mentioned above, Charles Figley and Joyce Carbonell have studied four different approaches to trauma resolution: TIR, EMDR, VKD, and TFT. In their view, all are very effective. However, also as noted above, their study was not designed as an outcome study. Lori Beth Bisbey completed a study of 57 victims of violent crime in February 1995. The study compared TIR to DTE and waiting list controls, using a variety of test instruments, on crime victims with PTSD. Waiting list controls showed no significant improvement over time; DTE showed significant improvement over controls (P < .01) on test instruments relating to PTSD; TIR performed significantly better than DTE (P < .01) on most test instruments. This study was part of her Ph.D. thesis and was done under the auspices of the California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego, CA. Wendy Coughlin completed a study of TIR on Panic and Anxiety Disorders in May 1995. Her study concluded that "there was a substantial and statisticall
As mentioned above, “>Charles Figley and “>Joyce Carbonell have studied four different approaches to trauma resolution: TIR, EMDR, VKD, and TFT. In their view, all are very effective. However, also as noted above, their study was not designed as an outcome study. The largest controlled study to date (57 subjects), completed in February, 1995, compares TIR to DTE and waiting list controls, using a variety of test instruments, on crime victims with PTSD.
As mentioned above, Charles Figley and Joyce Carbonell have studied four different approaches to trauma resolution: TIR, EMDR, VKD, and TFT. In their view, all are very effective. However, also as noted above, their study was not designed as an outcome study. The largest controlled study to date (57 subjects), completed in February, 1995, compares TIR to DTE and waiting list controls, using a variety of test instruments, on crime victims with PTSD. Waiting list controls showed no significant improvement over time; DTE showed significant improvement over controls (P < .01) on test instruments relating to PTSD; TIR performed significantly better than DTE (P < .01) on most test instruments. This study was part of a Ph.D. thesis by Lori Beth Bisbey and was done under the auspices of the California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego, CA. Another doctoral study was done by Wendy Coughlin (St. Petersburg, FL) on the effects of TIR on Panic Disorder. That study showed TIR producing s
