Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
In the 1980s Dr Roger Callahan, a Los Angeles based clinical psychologist of more than 40 years' experience, was working with a client named Mary who had a severe water phobia. She had shown no sign of improvement in 18 months of treatment. One day, she was complaining of stomach pain. Dr Callahan, who had been interested fr some time in traditional Chinese medicine, remembered that the stomach energy meridian ended in a point just below the eye. So, by way of experiment, he had Mary tap under her eye. Mary then reported that it had gone. Dr Callahan thought she was referring to the stomach pain, but she said that, not only the stomach pain, but the whole water phobia had just vanished. She was able to go down to his swimming pool - this is Los Angeles remember! - and splash water on herself, something she could never previously have contemplated. Her water phobia never returned.
This discovery led Dr Callahan to develop Thought Field Therapy, in which acupuncture points are tapped in a certain order depending on the problem.
Because of the effectiveness of TFT, The NHS Trust Association has formally included TFT on on its NHS Directory of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
