Acupressure given "empirically validated status" by APA

[ianvass]

Ok, so it's not strictly acupressure, but it's quite similar. I've been using EFT personally and with clients for years with fantastic success, and so it was nice to get the note today that said EFT qualifies to be labeled empirically proven by the American Psychological Association.

Read that again, all you skeptics: A form of acupressure was

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[theweaselking]

Given that they've got clinical results, could they not manage a better top-of-every-page endorsement than DEEPAK CHOPRA?

Couldn't they have gotten someone, *anyone*, with credentials, reputation, or credibility?

[ianvass]

First, EFT has been around a lot longer than they've had empirically validated results. If I had come to you and said, "Hey, there's this acupressure-styled technique called EFT, but it's not been empirically validated. Would you be willing to endorse it publicly?", we both know what your response would be

[theweaselking]

If I had come to you and said, "Hey, there's this acupressure-styled technique called EFT, but it's not been empirically validated. Would you be willing to endorse it publicly?", we both know what your response would be.

I'd also be a bad choice because I'm not a doctor - but I certainly might be willing to try it, and report anecdotal success and encourage clinical trials.

But I do know the sphere that he has positioned himself in, and it's interesting to me - if he was right about this, what else might he be right about that hasn't been sufficiently researched yet?The problem is that he endorses *everything*, whether it has results or not, whether there's a reason to think it might work or not. And he keeps endorsing things long after they're disproven, and he writes book after book of word salad explaining "science" by using the word "quantum" a lot and claiming deep meaning out of it

[ianvass]

Deepak Chopra endorsing your product is like TimeCube Guy endorsing your product: It still might be either a good product or a bad product, but the endorsement means nothing because the endorsER demonstrably has no idea what he's talking about.

LOL! Yeah, you're probably right. As I said, I know very little about him, except peripherally.

What an excellent question! Which do you think are insufficiently studied?
Because, say, acupuncture?
Or take homeopathy
Or reiki
Or intercessory prayer
YogaIt was an open-ended question. :) There are tons more of alternative methods out there, many more than I have personally looked at, but I personally use EFT with my clients and nothing else. Partially from lack of time to get in to anything else (2 jobs will do that to you), and partially because I was able to get definite results right away when I used it, both on myself and on clients, so it piqued my interest at a time when I had a little time to study it

[ianvass]

Heh. Actually, they did their research really well and controlled for similar things like hugs. :) The APA wouldn't accept something acupressure-ish if it were easily disproven like that.

[ianvass]

Oh, and hugs don't help PTSD really well. EFT does. :)