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Author Ends Primary Participation While Simultaneously Establishing Next Generation Goals for the Dissemination of Etiotropic TMT1, Uniquely the First Focused-Caring-Based Epistemology2 Structurally Implemented for the Perdurable Cure3 of Psychological Trauma and PTSD.

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Neurobiology of Psychological Trauma Etiology and It’s Reversal with Etiotropic Trauma Management
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Jesse Collins, Nancy Carson and Craig Carson

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Jesse Collins, Nancy Carson and Craig Carson

 

Is ETM TRT part of the formally titled “Evidenced-Based” treatment evaluation movement?

Etiotropic Trauma Management™ Trauma Resolution Therapy™
The Definitive Psychological Trauma Delineation and Cure

 

Since its inception 3 decades ago, Etiotropic Trauma Management™ Trauma Resolution Therapy™ (ETM TRT) has provided our world with a complete and unequivocal4 cure for psychological trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). That fact has supported ETM’s strategic systems application component which intervenes upon, manages and prevents perpetrator based trauma causing activities.

 

I am Jesse Collins, author, developer and ETM Certifying Authority for the ETM TRT system of psychological trauma treatment, management and care and attending professional, patient and research training, educational and certification contingents. I am now ending my primary participation within the ETM TRT dissemination system. I will, however, maintain a supervisory role as the ETM Certification Authority, and  continue to make available through links to this page those informational components that support the thousands of psychological treatment clinicians already ETM TRT professionally trained and certified.  The ETM Tutorial will also be available as continuing support for the even greater numbers of patients still using TRT. Two trainers (left) continue with my authority to assist special situations (online school and the local school for organizations). There are NO other trainers. Copyrights, counselor manager agreements and all legal particulars governing the ETM TRT system of care and combat management continue the work and are noted in the pertinent site locations (left). I’m asking you to help by following the rules and information provided in this site. If you will, ETM TRT will achieve the goals described below when I am gone. My wife Nancy and I have sustained very poor health for the last 14 years. We wish all ETM TRT counselors, managers and patients well. Goodbye.

 

Jesse W. Collins II

 

I’m leaving the next generation of dedicated ETM TRT professionals with what’s called this “Author’s Message”:

It is the most important thing I have to say about ETM TRT, showing its meaning for and importance to humanity and concluding with clarification of the model’s goals for the rest of the century.

Restating for emphasis, ETM TRT has endurably, completely and Etiotropically resolved the psychological trauma affecting every case to which it was administered in accordance with its application criteria. As ETM TRT’s author celebrating this 30th anniversary of its initial development, I am stating what I have learned starting with its inception and continuing thereafter to be true: “Resolution” as I’ve employed it here means that

ETM TRT has cured, stills cures, and will continue to cure immemorially

people affected by psychological trauma and its more recognizable behavioral outcome Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Moreover, and in case you have not understood the full meaning of this statement, no other secular based body of psychological research and study has ever provided the world  since the beginning of humankind’s existence a view or experience of this phenomenon’s equal. Imagine the final removal of the deepest, darkest vacuum of devastation that heretofore has hollowed our hearts and minds of their essence, vacating joy and pleasure from our lives as they have been taken inexorably over the millennia to their endings, never having known without abuse their life’s wonderments. Now, because of ETM TRT’s applications so far to some members of our generations, for them there’ll be no more sequestered haunting trauma attended by seemingly perdurable loss-causing shock, horror, hurt, shame, sadness, disillusion and everlasting depression.

Psychological trauma has 2 other functions different from just being the intrapsychic source of individual, family and community life long misery. These functions make psychological trauma the Gordian knot to be untied if anyone other than me, and there are a few of you, intends to end pain and suffering that has been reinventing itself as if an infinite part of man for (at least) the last 3 thousand plus years.

First, psychological trauma provides the inexhaustible fuel supply for that inveterate relic of the once dark ages of mental health, the “cycle of violence.” Traumatized people sometimes traumatize others, including even their loved ones. Second, psychopaths use trauma, for example, created  through the killing of innocent citizens as a time responsive intrapsychically implanted manipulation device that systemically controls their political oppositions’ defensive management activities.  That is called “terrorism.”

Strategic ETM employs its oft referenced to be daedal structural features in conjunction with TRT’s ability to cure trauma affected individuals and systems in order to expunge and then dispose of that system management debilitating fuel that repeatedly re launches the “cycle.” Removing the fuel  interrupts the cycle and then ends it.

Thereafter, what also can we expect to succumb to our cause, determinations, and Strategic ETM strengthened capacities? It will be those perpetrators of perpetual calamity and hysteria. That is, strategic uses of ETM will end not just their hegemonic methods, but also the very existences of those people who would commit the heinous and vile deeds the methods require to traumatize their prey.  The days where terrorists so adroitly exploit peace and innocence to advance minority interests are coming to an end. Without any equivocation, ETM TRT is the sword that will cut the Gordian knot of criminal, as in terrorism, violence.

Imagine then even more profoundly if you dare, what our world could be like without that cycle of violence and the ability of sociopathic offenders to use trauma to control others. Who knows? If our 30 years past, current and near future preparations work, that is, establishing global understanding that trauma as a horrific force can be removed from our planet’s population’s lives, then our next generation of determined ETM TRT professionals can more easily and readily spend their time just finishing the job of actual implementation: extricating the rest of our civilizations out from under trauma’s now obscenely unnecessary 3 dimensional burden. After achieving the goals of ridding our citizenry of trauma’s effects and then preventing it from being used by criminality and the insane, who knows what else a world without psychological trauma can do?

I intend to train and certify as ETM TRT competent and with my authority to administer the model, only those professionals who can and will ascribe to the referenced goals.  And please know and remember: Even if you are not the administrator of ETM’s strategic functions, it is the clinical TRT incremental work done at the individual cure level that makes the more grandeur view become reality.

To conclude this “Author’s Message,” from herein I will work assiduously as my health allows with those who will help me by committing to these trauma, violence and terrorism eradication goals. If that’s not you, enjoy the rest of your life and don’t turn the page.

Jesse W. Collins II

©1979 – 2009 Jesse Collins
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Do not copy or use  ETM TRT training or application materials without author permission
JesseCollins@etiotropic.com

 

 

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  Etiotropic TMT™ (also ETM TRT) is the abbreviation of Etiotropic Trauma Management and Treatment. It represents several integrated but all Etiotropically engineered approaches to and for the address of individual, systemic, and strategic applications to psychological trauma and PTSD that operate within one clinical and crisis management paradigm. That construct is hosted by an attendant epistemology that is applied for a single purpose: curing psychological trauma whether presenting alone or in concert with PTSD. Cure means to end the problem now, not manage or otherwise have to cope with it for life.

Etiotropic TMT™ is comprised methodologically of Etiotropic Trauma Management™, Trauma Resolution Therapy™, and its primary clinical engine entitled “Etiotropic Incremental Fusion Induction™.” Supplanting it for brevity, we use the shortened partial acronym “EFI”. Because there are so many interconnected components related to implementation and discussion of this paradigm and epistemology, I’ve summarized them under the referenced Etiotropic TMT.

 

2 “Epistemology” refers to the intellectual environment needed, required and created for the exclusive purpose of resolving trauma completely, which is the synonym for the cure of psychological trauma and PTSD. The epistemology consists of the learned clinical experience and rationales for a) hosting the clinical application in an environment that accounts for and removes resolution-interfering exogenous variables,   b) crisis management on the scene with clinical treatment follow up  of near term trauma, c) clinical treatment of long term including multiple sources (complex) of trauma, d) the removal of near and long term trauma’s managerial (analysis and decision making) effects on systems, and e) intervention upon and prevention of perpetrator (for example, terrorism) use of trauma’s deleterious effects on targeted defensive managements of antagonist systems (opposing forces as in the military).

 

3 I’m told that some counselor certification boards may have promulgated the use of the terms “Cure” and “Guarantee” in advertising as unethical for its members. I acknowledge this rule as a necessary approach to clinical treatment given the modalities historically engineered and vetted by that that organization and all others thinking similarly. But it is not an appropriate concept now, if in fact, so ruled. Regrettably, both “cure” and “guarantee” represent profound issues of conflict for the psychological trauma treatment ideologies and the subsequent delivery from them of ethical care. For example, claims based only on publications in some journals that evaluate Nosotropic clinical and research based activities that there is “no cure for PTSD” are perceived as specious by those TRT Counselors who resolve trauma completely and daily. There is no further need in those cases for ongoing life management of coping responses to a trauma’s etiology that has been addressed professionally as surgeons treat for a wound or other injury. Hence, the old attempts to keep their clan from spouting that they could do what truly they’ve never been able to do from within their epistemology have now been turned into political prejudice by their own “no cure” self serving battle cry. Little do they know that the reason they can’t cure it within their elected modalities, is that certain cultural variables, which we call “Exogenous Variables,” interfere with their activities. Eventually, that group of naysayers will have to confront the same issues, which given that their ideas are adapted out of those influences, will no doubt be embarrassing for them. In the mean time, they have created a political process that must be responded to in kind. PTSD is not only curable, but simply so when removing that competition’s failures from the political landscape. That is why the term “cure” must now be substituted for the 30 year less ostentatious phrase “complete resolution.”

 

So with respectful regard, but with a decision to meet the political challenge now laid down for Etiotropic TMT, it provides for both a cure and guarantee for the treatment of psychological trauma and PTSD, but emphasizing, as set out in the conditions referenced below as “Exogenous Variables” found in footnote 4, and in the book, ETM TRT; Professional Due Diligence for the 1st Secular Cure for PTSD. Moreover, although the process of “curing” psychological trauma seems simple after it has been completed, it is very difficult for numerous reasons to conceptualize pre cure. In fact, where all 39 (hard copy) books, booklets, graphic slide representations and other tools like the Internet (free) ETM Tutorial and School (fee based) used for professional / patient education programs, that also electronically encompass about ½ gigabyte (500 megabytes exclusive of video) of disk space on a standard computer, all pull together to explain ETM TRT’s theory and application of the term “cure,” this paragraph summarizes into as few words as I can restrain myself in order to give the initial reader of this site as simplified view of its theory, application and epistemological principles as I think is possible.

 

ETM TRT’s “cure” of psychological trauma and its behavioral manifestation “PTSD” refer to the complete resolution of psychological trauma within the theorem that trauma etiology and trauma symptoms are mutually inclusive; you can’t have one without the other. Moreover, attempts to identify and end symptoms first as used in competing Nosotropically focused modalities like Behavioral, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and most  psychodynamic models exacerbate, unbeknownst to the administrator, the trauma condition (PTSD) by actually strengthening etiology, ironically ensuring perpetuation of symptoms, probably for life absent epiphanically proportioned intervention. One secret to trauma’s resolution, therefore, is to control that Nosotropically enhanced installed repeating irony while reversing, expunging or otherwise removing the correlate trauma etiology, a consequent outcome (as opposed to a goal) being dissipation of attending trauma symptoms. The goal is only in this use to resolve the trauma completely. Neither TRT’s goal nor its action component involve helping people to learn how to live life or in other words to cope with the trauma as if it were incurable. When interventions on the trauma paradox occur outside of the ETM TRT treatment environment, they are usually experienced as a spiritual event of substantial proportions. Hence, when the paradox is circumvented with TRT and the etiology made extinct, people think of ETM TRT as a spiritual model that magically or as if in a miracle removes their lifelong condition. Importantly for the notion of the term as used in this application, ETM TRT is NOT a spiritual program, but rather focuses secularly on the neurological and other medical basis of PTSD’s substrate. ETM TRT focuses its activities on identification and reversal of all trauma etiology in a manner particular to TRT that ends trauma symptom presentation. That “manner” necessarily requires a de paradoxing response proportionate to the trauma’s onsetting one, especially as it may have been supported over the life cycle by exogenous variables like the uses of formal and informal (social drug / alcohol use) medication, Nosotropically and conversion gone awry conceived helping epistemologies, to include their underpinning mind controlling philosophy, stoicism, which otherwise is a very valuable psychological necessity for surviving traumatic events. Subsequently, facilitating its cure with ETM TRT involves temporarily setting aside during its application the non existential elements of a culture’s thought systems, which sequiturely assists in reinforcing the traumas’ individual and collective staying power. Again, they are hallmarked by the myth “There is no cure for psychological trauma and PTSD.”

 

4 “Complete and unequivocal cure” refers to the complete resolution (cure) of a presenting case of psychological trauma and PTSD. That will occur 100% of the time when ETM TRT’s criteria for application are strictly adhered to. Certain exogenous variables and 1 model prospective limitation (found in “e)” below) can prevent that 100% cure. The exogenous variables that will break the 100% rule:

a)       a parallel application of psychotropic medications and previous applications of the same even though the patient has withdrawn from that use.

b)       periodic social drug / alcohol use (not chemical dependency – see “c)” next), for example, the patient engages in TRT group on Wednesdays and drinks two beers on every Saturday, and no other alcohol or drug consumption occurs during the week.

c)      comorbid issues, such as Bipolar Disorder and Chemical Dependency are presenting parallel or in concert with the PTSD (where non pathological social use is treated herein as an exogenous variable that will preclude reaching the cure phenomenon {see above “b)”}, pathological drug / alcohol use is addressed as a primary issue of its own and one of the sources of trauma that should be addressed after the patient attains substantial sobriety within the ETM multiple sources definition and instruction for treatment).

d)     the application is made for the purpose of controlling or ending symptoms rather than for resolving the trauma, that is, reversing the trauma’s etiologies (there are two), or the person is engaged in a rigorous PTSD behavioral control or modification program parallel to TRT’s application.

e)      The traumatic event(s) occurred before the age of 3 years (not exogenous variable, but a limitation of the therapy; it can, however, possibly and even likely be addressed by TRT if done so within the multiple sources of trauma TRT application guidelines).

f)       The traumatized person is currently being exposed to an ongoing threat to the continuity of life as in the role of the battered spouse.

g)      A TRT psychotropically medicated, social drug / alcohol using, or Chemically Dependent using TRT Therapist.

 

Trauma’s “complete resolution” is described in detail in the online ETM Tutorial / Professional / Academic / Development / Chapter 5 / and in ETM TRT Professional Due Diligence for the 1st Secular Cure of PTSD, Chapter 6 (paperback purchased as a component of ETM TRT training). As demonstrated in the ETM TRT literature, some of these variables can be circumvented or mitigated such that the quality of resolution approaches, but usually does not wholly attain the complete resolution or cure goal otherwise available without these variables’ interferences with the application. TRT can produce lots of wonderful results, meaning have results pertaining to cognitive clarification of what happened to the person’s psychology because of the event even when all the exogenous variables are not considered. But those outcomes based just on cognitive understandings is not what reverses trauma’s etiology thus curing the trauma. Thus, not addressing all the variables will not allow the patient to achieve the best that is available had the referenced variables been addressed by ETM’s formulas and guidelines. But there is bad news here also. Not addressing the variables can have in some and not necessarily always predictable applications have negatives that dumb down the approach to the level of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or even harm a patient further who has already been harmed enough by the initial event(s). Such people do not need the risk of a malfeasant therapy experience when such things can absolutely be avoided by following the directions on the box.

 

These issues, that is, identifying and addressing the variables that will preclude psychological trauma’s optimum address, may tend to dampen one’s enthusiasm for becoming a TRT clinician. They should and are placed in the front with the intension of dissuading from participation with TRT anyone less than is the therapist who is dedicated to helping people by simply removing the pain that is hurting them. That is what TRT does; it removes ALL of that pain when applied within the parameters described here. Although putting up with these issues that influence the extraordinarily fine level of output one gets can be onerous in some cultures, I’ll assure you that seeing an individual completely cured of a previously thought to be incurable condition, in this instance referring to PTSD, experiencing that outcome as a facilitator of it is well worth the commitment to the discipline required to achieve that cure. That is why I, my wife and Craig Carson have applied so much of our lives and personal resources to making this phenomenon available to those who need it.

 

5 In answer to the posed question (placed at the end of the home page’s navigation menu on the left) “Is ETM TRT an Evidenced-Based approach to trauma treatment and management?”, ETM TRT is absolutely based on very solid and easily replicating evidence as provided in the book  ETM Professional Due Diligence for the 1st Secular Cure of PTSD. But with regards to the meaning of the term “Evidenced-Based” as it is currently being exploited for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy dawa (although Arabic, that term is used prolifically in English) for the advancement of a competing ideology, the answer is “Not likely.” However, the question raised such significant issues at contest between helping ideas and methods that it initiated from me a fairly long study of the changes occurring in the clinical arenas while Nancy and I were ill and incapacitated from injuries and illnesses. The results of that study have been posted to our activist advocacy blog in a 3 part developing essay entitled: The Evidenced-Based, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Self Help and Government Merger: Monopolistic Cultural Infusion of Behavioral Whack-a-Mole.

 

 

 

© 2009

Jesse W. Collins II