TIR, or Traumatic Incident Reduction, is a systematic method of locating, reviewing and resolving traumatic events. Once a person has used TIR to fully and calmly view a painful memory or chain of related memories, life events no longer trigger it and cause distressing symptoms. TIR has proven useful in relieving a wide range of fears, limiting beliefs, suffering due to losses (including unresolved grief and mourning), depression, and other PTSD symptoms. The TIR technique can be traced to roots in psychoanalytic theory and desensitization methods; however, it is carried out in a thoroughly person-centered, non-judgmental and respectful context.

The idea of emotional trauma being curable has only recently been considered by leading traumatologists. In May of 1993, Professor Charles Figley and Joyce Carbonell convened a seminar at Florida State University. The invited participants were addressed by a panel of innovators in the field of successfully treating emotional trauma. The panel members included Dr. Frank Gerbode and Gerald French, who spoke on the treatment paradigm know as Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR). Since that time, thousands of people suffering traumatic sequelae have resolved their residual pain, suffering, anguish and grief with the benefit of TIR.

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