

Anyone looking into the power treatments investigated by Figley and Carbonell (1995, 1997) must take these repeatable and robust observable facts into account i.e. This is mentioned because if one is working in therapy with a person over weeks, months or years, the opportunity for the beneficent role of extraneous variables, other than the treatment, have an increasing opportunity to operate. Lest this effect be confused with the "normal" reduction of problems with time or with other approaches to psychotherapy, it should be kept in mind that the therapy effect is predicted and takes place within minutes.


The first new fact is that that this reproducible procedure can eliminate not only the immediate upset experienced (extant sometimes for many decades) in instances of trauma, but is usually accompanied by the elimination of sequelae such as nightmares and obsession over the trauma.
