I think this is the same as one eye integration therapy that was talked about a little on TIPS before.
I think it's a one-eyed version of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy. The website of two major players is found here: https://www.sightpsych.com/ --Mike On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:23 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1 Jan 2011 at 15:53, don allen wrote: > >> >> Second: I just had a call from a psychiatrist friend of mine who is >> doing an Independent Medical Exam (IME) on a patient who is claiming >> severe post traumatic stress disorder. The patient is being "treated" >> by Dr. Paul Swingle (http://www.swingleandassociates.com/)using >> "Observed & Experiential Integration Therapy". A search of >> PsychAbstracts turned up no useful hits in the literature. > <snip> > >> So my questions are: >> >> Has anyone else heard about this "therapy"? >> Does it have any standing within the clinical community? > > A number of years ago I was asked by a former student to look into > another therapy carried out by Dr. Swingle, neurofeedback or > neurotherapy for the alleged hyperactivity (ADD) of my student's > daughter. It took a supreme effort to locate my reply, which turned > out to have been sent in 2000. > > According to my letter, Dr. Swingle is a former academic psychologist > (at McMaster, as it happens, when I was a graduate student there) > whose specialty was social psychology, in particular, game theory. He > published a number of articles in this field in the 1960's, then > nothing for about the next 30 years. Then he published a paper > "Neurofeedback treatment of pseudoseizure disorder (Biological > Psychiatry, 1998). The paper was a report of three cases of > "pseudoseizure activity" in which he was able to modify some index of > their brain activity, with little evidence that this helped their > seizures. He noted "Due to the rare nature of this disorder, however, > control groups are difficult to obtain, which in turn limits the > extent of these findings". > > I felt that if this was his best evidence for neurofeedback therapy > for ADD, it was not impressive. Nor did I find evidence published by > other authors advocating neurotherapy to be any more convincing. In > addition, I had reservations concerning the use of brainwaves as a > means of diagnosing the ADD of my student's daughter's in the first > place, a method which seemed unorthodox and insufficiently validated. > > I suggested to my student that she should be extremely cautious in > accepting the claims of this controversial therapy. A glance at Dr. > Swingle's web page suggests that he continues to be a advocate of > neurofeedback for a variety of conditions, and "Observed and > Experiential Integration Therapy" is likely the same stuff or > similar. Perhaps he has managed to obtain better evidence since I > last looked at the matter. > > Stephen > > -------------------------------------------- > Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. > Professor of Psychology, Emeritus > Bishop's University > Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada > e-mail: sblack at > ubishops.ca > --------------------------------------------- > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13541.42a7e8017ab9578358f118300f4720fb&n=T&l=tips&o=7608 > or send a blank email to > leave-7608-13541.42a7e8017ab9578358f118300f472...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > -- -- Mike For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn. (Hemingway) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=7613 or send a blank email to leave-7613-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
