deliquesce, thanks for all the info you looked up on LI. I have seen and read at the LI website. My T provided me with more detailed information in certain areas than is at the site.
My concern is not about the validity of LI therapy but about how I felt T was pushing me away with it and his comments about it being a therapy that didn't require the primacy of the therapeutic relationship, thank god. (No he didn't say the thank god part, of course, but that's what I heard as the subtext).
LI includes a good dose of ego state therapy, and I have found that helpful. T has also used a "count me up" year by year timeline to bring me back to present time when we went back, which is a somewhat similar to the LI timeline, but less image/memory based. So I know some of these techniques and that they are helpful to me. I don't need external validation on this. T has used EMDR with me in a creative way mixed with ego state therapy sometimes, and there is not real body of literature on this, yet it has been helpful to me. So I am open to "undocumented" therapy approaches. I don't want to read too much at the LI website because I got enough info on the technique from T, and because I don't want to get too scholarly/analytical in case we do LI together. I want to come in relatively virgin as I think that will be more therapeutic. I might have one question for him about the bihemispheric processing that is the key feature of EMDR and how he thinks that missing feature is accommodated for in LI. It is supposed to be so central in freeing the stuck trauma in EMDR. How could LI act so quickly if it doesn't do that too?
I know my attitude probably doesn't seem very sound to a careful skeptic, deliquesce, but I would feel differently if I was going to take a drug or something. I research pharmaceuticals extensively.
Plus, some of the therapies that have been documented as most broadly efficacious have not been a good fit for me at (CBT). Although with this latest episode of therapy, maybe I need it!
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at the moment, it does seem a bit like he has found a new toy.
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Yeah, and he's saying, "sunny, come play with me." I don't know how I feel about that.
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i do not think he is doing it to be malicious in any way. he probably really does think it is worth a try.
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I do agree with that.