<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Dear Patricia: Of course, I take your points all together. I am here writing a long piece which I suppose few will wander through though I am sure several will benefit from doing so. My 70 years have largely been spent seeking answers to how we function in various spheres of existence and I have been fortunate to be exposed to some of the finest minds of our life times who have generously mentored me as did Dr. Moreno. I have been particularly reactivated by both this discussion and my dealings with the mental health system regarding my Son who is now once again in Bellevue where, given the circumstances, I could not but choose to put him. Bellevue is no worse and certainly not better than most of the institutions around the US and probably elsewhere as well. <div>
<br></div><div>I was involved very deeply with EMDR back in the early 90s through to the end of the 90s writing often on the list servewhich grew to enormous proportions and Van Der Kolk actually was one of the monitors of that list serve for a while. I actually contributed a fair amount about the aspects of psychodrama which could enhance what EMDR was about and it seemed to be quite appreciated by my colleagues there. EMDR has since developed quite a bit with various machines and approaches added and other approaches growing out of it. The original studies were short term processes with the worst trauma I can imagine and they were successful with feedback from clients over 18 months. </div>
<div><br></div><div>There are several parts to the process to be sure. Many decided that they would go more slowly and it was also important as I know you know to test for multiple personalities prior to entering into the work and for several other things as well which would indicate to clinicians real danger in proceeding unless you were totally comfortable with that particular population and even then some serious contrary indications for the use of EMDR were clear. So it was not a straight forward, you walk into my office, sit down and I wave my hands in front of your face situation at any time. </div>
<div><br></div><div>However, I am always deeply suspicious of clinical decisions to lengthen treatment when a process has been so successful short term. The Palo Alto group demonstrated over and over that there was little benefit to treatments that lasted more than 7 sessions and they have contributed some of the finest work and literature in the field; Francine Shapiro, the creator of EMDR was actually a part of that group when she came upon her discovery. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I am always thinking that the extension of treatment length is for the most part,about the clinician wanting to conserve their practice and take in more money through increased sessions. This has always been a problem in our profession and clinicians justify this by saying that things are so much more complex. At the worst it is the "Power Tactics of Jesus Christ," ( Jay Haley's brilliant article) that is at work. On rare occasions there can be a need for long term work, however it is almost always as a consequence of poor training and poor supervision in the instance of any therapy that leads to poor results and then the justifications about needing more time. </div>
<div><br><div>I have worked with the most difficult patients over the years and most of the time, I took much longer in their treatment than my mentors because I had not built my skills sufficiently. Then there are patients that because of the lack of proper attention to their biological disturbance, general toxicity of the organisim and vast amounts of oxidative stress with Yeast/Candida, hormone imbalance, blood sugar disturbances, poor breathing (overbreathing see my website </div>
<div>< <a href="http://www.buteyknyc.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">www.buteyknyc.com</a> >if you are not familiar with the importance of reducing breathing to deal with hypocapnia which is endeminc outside of indigenous communities) etc. all of these increase the treatment time or totally block progress. </div>
<div><br></div><div>A few examples of those who succeded where it was not thought possible and there are so many more are Insoo Kim Berg in Milwaukee who worked with Street alcoholics obtaining rapid results in breif session in her version of Solution Focussed Therapy developed by herself and her husband Steve de Shazer. Amazing stuff and teachable with the proper supervision. They even developed a computer model which you could use that got as good or better results than most of them and because of INSURANCE ISSUES they were not allowed to export that computer program to other clinics or teaching institutions. That could have eased the pain of milllions even billions across the world. You asked clients what the computer told you to ask, and then based on their answers which you fed into the computer, the next step was given and so on up to the final interventions at each session. </div>
<div>Maria Palazolli, M.D. <a href="http://www.ralphmag.org/palazzoli.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.ralphmag.org/palazzoli.html</a> based on a lot of what has followed on Milton H. Erickson, M.D.'s giant footsteps developed a paradoxical one stroke intervention for Anorexia which she also applied successfully to a large extent with Schizophrenics. And of course there was the most effective clinician in the history of psychological treatment, Milton H. Erickson, M.D. himself and his best students including the "stale loaf of bread" as he called them, Bandler and Grinder my teachers along with Erickson. "Stale loaf of bread" was the conundrum puzzle he insisted on calling them. When they finally gave up having been unable to decifer it, he told them, they were two dried out heals with a bunch of crumbs in between them. They all laughed mightily when that was revealed. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I think what is badly needed is really good training and supervision in any method and too often, due to the money involved, it simply doesn't happen. I remember one of the early models for psychodrama teaching and certification in Argentina by <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; ">Dr. Jaime Rojas-Bermudez. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">I again had the privilege of meeting a number of his students who came to Beacon for training. They were all psychiatrists who had to go through a 4 year training with Rojas-Bermudez including some trips to Beacon before becoming certified by him to run psychodramas. He only accepted psychiatrists in his training at that time. Each of those I met were absolutely brilliant. Their entire first year of training, they worked entirely as protagonists and as auxiliary egos. Rojas-Bermudez had a psychoanalytic approach and this was utilized in examining each psychodrama. </span></div>
<div><br></div><div>We are subject to the same consequences of our scarcity driven model in health and educaton. Your money or your life. And in fact, it is your life in any case. I really do think that I know how to heal nearly all mental diseases if I was given the kind of therapeutic community with physicians who understand, proper diet, exercise, Spirituality see physicians like Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. <a href="http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC39/Remen.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC39/Remen.htm</a> and the work of psychiatrists in Puerto Rico or the Bronx and Brazil with Spiritulistas and <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; ">Brazilian Candomble, </span> hormonal balancing, attention to the PH of the blood and the lacatic acid build up as a conseqeunce of many things largely affected by endemic over breathing and so many other issues. I imagine there are many more hubristic persons like myself who believe that they too can accomplish these ends. Emanuel Revici, M.D. who I had the great gift of meeting and have one of the remaining autographed copies of his book literally created a set of principles based on some of the laws of physics and a fuller understanding of cell chemistry than had existed before or since with the exception of the work of <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 33, 0); "><a href="http://www.gilbertling.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">Gilbert Ling, Ph.D.</a>-- Gilbert Ling's work has created a scientific basis for cell physiology. When I began reading his work encouraged by another pioneer in alternative medicine, Dr. Ray Peat <a href="http://www.raypeat.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">www.raypeat.com</a> I found that as Peat had said, Ling had resolved many of the basic issues that appeared to confuse most of those in the scientific establishment who were studying "membrane physiology." Anyone who reads Ling's work will find that cells do not do the things described in the standard medical literature. His indictment of scientific fraud--on a scale "unknown in scientific history"--and of anti-scientific stupidity, must eventually be accepted by anyone who would understand the present scientific-political establishment.</span> Revici's work along with that of Ling if followed properly could probably heal most serious physical illnesses alone. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Watching my son tortured by Bipolar disorder because the educational and mental health systems in this country and most of the world are so totally run by pharmaceuticals and psychiatrists and administrators who long ago compromised their souls is more disturbing than I can say. I tell you that at times, I think along the lines of the monster in the new movie <b><i>Law Abiding Citizen</i></b> since the system as it exists is all I have to deal with. Even if I had unlimited financial resources and could build my own institution to utilize all that I know, while I could heal many including my son, that institution would be ignored or invalidated as it would threaten the mainstream similar to all movement toward humane evolution in any field. And still we must endure to prevail. </div>
<div> </div><div>I remember a time when there were humane places like The hospital with which Carl Hollander was affiliated in Denver. While there was a lot more that could be done in addition to what was available, it was an exciting place to be. Murray Bowen's work in the Hospital in Washington where he hospitalized whole families and lead multiple family therapy sessions; the enormously important work of Community Building pioneered by M. Scott Peck which was able at times to not only prevent the necessity for hospitalization of severely mentallly disturbed persons, it worked to build the emotional and other resources of the group gathered around that person. Bob Roberts carried that work into the worst prisons in the US and saved so many lives in the process see <a href="http://www.projectreturn.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">www.projectreturn.com</a> or<a href="http://www.mysoulsaidtome.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">www.Mysoulsaidtome.com</a> Then there were places like Chestnut lodge across the country and in other countries as well. Ferdinand Knobloch's Therapeutic Community in Czechoslovakia where he employed nearly entirely persons who were not in the field, and were instead down to earth people with wide life experiences including raising their own families; Rosen's Direct Analysis work with psychotic individuals, Howard Podvoll,M.D. whose book, <b><i>Recovering Sanity</i></b> I have mentioned before as a necessary reading in this field of real humaine ideals in working with those whose minds and bodies have rebelled against the worst aspects of our stymied capitalist driven world. Following up on the magnificent work of Howard Searles,M.D. <a href="http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap129h.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap129h.html</a> and Frieda Fromm-Reichman <a href="http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/friedafromm.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/friedafromm.html</a> ( Read again<b><i> I Never Promised You a Rose Garden</i></b>, and the pioneers unsung and mostly unheard of like <b>John Perceva</b>l who through enormous courage and stamina fought through the worst of his own madness at a time when patients were chained to walls in dungeons to create the first real mental patients Rights society called "Alleged Lunatics Friends Society." This lead to most of the subsequent protections for mental patients in England and elsewhere based on Perceval's efforts and those who joined with him. There are others well covered in Podvolls book several who wrote their own books as did Perceval about their experiences which are so highly instructive. These are real heros who we should honor in studying to unlock with their keys the depths of learning that "madness," opens to us. Indigenous societies do not extrude the madman, they seek to understand and integrate them into the overall message of spirit to lead their villages to a more connected sense of well being and course forward. There were also amazing communities and villages which devoted themselves to providing homes for the insane which have a long history going back to Emperor in the 3rd Century BC in India or the township of Geel Belgium where at one time over 4,000 mad people lived in the villagers homes and many of these mad persons had escaped from Asylums where they were treated like mad dogs. This still exists to some extent there to this day; Geel being the first organized "alternative" of homelike foster care in the world and continues to this day. </div>
<div><br></div><div>With the tools of uncorrupted science, we can become more powerful healers who can also listen to and learn from the lessons of the so called insane. We are able to help children on the very serious side of the autism spectrum to recover using variations of the DAN protocols see <a href="http://www.autism.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">www.autism.com</a> There is simply no committement to excellence in the mental health or medical field by and large as funding continues to come through the totally corrupt pharmaceutical companies. It is so bad that one of the most noted editors of the New England Journal of Medicine recently resigned in protest to the lies spread in the journals and in the false advertisements for the medications while knowing physicians simply turned their heads while offering their open hands for the money tinged with the blood and pain of millions. </div>
<div>The same is basically true in our educational systems by and large as John Taylor Gatto, one of the most astounding teachers in the history of public or private schools and one of the most thorough historians of schooling has written regarding the real purpose of public education which is to dumb us all down to cooperation with those in power with a few exceptions like the Sudbury Valley School. <a href="http://www.sudval.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.sudval.org/</a> where brilliance still prevails and students really learn democracy at it's best first hand. We could create millions of wonderfully fulfilling jobs in health and education which nearly occurred during Johnson's presidency with the Great Society programs. If only there were a substantial committment to a humaine society. Instead, we bargain with life and accept a walking death for most of the worlds population. The examples that put the lie to the notions of scarcity are many. </div>
<div>Perhaps this community of action therapists can learn to join with others who are pointing the way with sociodramas and action protests at psychological events including our own including street actions etc so that the shift may come before the whimpering gets too much louder and those in control drown along with the rest of us as the waters rise over all. In fact, the experiences of some highly respected pioneers in the realms of the so called psychic visionaries as well as the ancient warnings of many indigenous cultures tell us of just such a future if we fail to shift our ways. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Be well, Bud</div></div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:18 PM, PATRICIA DESERT <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:honeybwomn@msn.com">honeybwomn@msn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Dear Bud--You make the documented pointed that EMDR has been incredibly successful in helping trauma survivors heal, and yes sometimes within 5 sessions. In my EMDR work with trauma survivors I certainly can attest to this. However, EMDR is an 8 stage process and not just the eye movements processing that so many think is the only "miracle" causing change. Eye movements processing is the desensitization stage and it is an incredibly rich, robustly busy, and deeply reorganizing internal process that manifests in physical movement and somatic/emotional changes engaging the left and right brain through many and sometimes all the senses. Thrusting someone into that without preparation has the same consequences as thrusting someone into a psychodrama without preparation. Which is exactly why EMDR therapy is an 8-stage method emphasizing, as does clinically sound psychodrama, safety, a resourced Self, and a reliable sense of groundedness. And when chronic PTSD is part of the clients experience along with chronically failed attachment wounds, EMDR work as well as psychodramatic work can be spent focusing on developing safety and groundedness for months and months, even years. <br>
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None of our methods are miracle workers nor are we. So many factors influence whether or not we will be able to help our clients and Van der Kolk understands this. I have met him at EMDR conferences, heard him speak, read his work. He knows that all methods have skilled practitioners and unskilled practitioners. He makes allowances for that. But he he also likes documented, quantifiable, long-term studies with control groups that show the efficacy of a method, and when they do not readily exist and he sees people abreacting and regressing without safety, groundedness, meaning making, etc.--then given his perspective why wouldn't he have the reaction he had. I would and have had similar reactions at conferences. <br>
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Rather than expend so much energy on Van der Kolk and attempting to change his mind I would much rather see our energies incorporate in training curricula requirements for demonstrating the understanding and skill of fostering connection, safety and containment before any potentially traumatic dramas are directed. I think overall we do a great job in fostering connection within groups--sufficient safety and containment seem to be the neglected step-children. That's what I would like to see change.<br>
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Patti Desert, LCSW-C, CEMDR, CP Singular Pathways 208 East Melrose Avenue Baltimore, MD 21212 Phone: 410.435.3755 Fax: 410.435.0547 <a href="http://www.singular-pathways.com" target="_blank">www.singular-pathways.com</a> "from fears and tears to confidence and joy"<br>
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:32:44 -0500<br>Subject: Re: abreaction<br>From: <a href="mailto:bud.weiss@gmail.com" target="_blank">bud.weiss@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:adam@blatner.com" target="_blank">adam@blatner.com</a><br>
CC: <a href="mailto:list@grouptalkweb.org" target="_blank">list@grouptalkweb.org</a><br><br>While I agree with Adam that "<span style="font-family:Arial">that there are no procedures or processes that are good for every client," there is something in the work of Milton H. Erickson, MD and that which Francine Shapiro developed that has been so successful across the board with very serious trauma and PTSD. By now thousands upon thousands of cases reported with EMDR alone. The initial studies with less than 5 sessions accomplished superior results over anything seen previously. This is one of the reasons so many came to study the method and that Joseph Volpe, M.D. the father of trauma deconditioning signed on so vociferously to the work saying basically that it was the best thing since sliced bread. It is also why many of the leaders in the treatment in the VA of returning veterans have said that "<b><span style="text-decoration:underline">Not</span></b> offering our traumatized veterans EMDR is criminal." The pattern interupts and constant reintegration of the truamatic events in the process are easily tracked in videos and audio recordings of the work with the most serious clients. Psychodrama can do the same thing and I think even more effectively because of the spatial partializing or dissociation that takes place so much easier in psychodrama with the reintegration or re-association done as the healing process proceeds. </span>
<div>AND ONLY IN THE HANDS OF A SKILLED WELL TRAINED CLINICIAN. Thanks all, Bud<br><br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Abreaction is simply the re-connection of conscious awareness with feelings and ideas that had been repressed. In the vast majority of cases, in ordinary psychotherapy, this happens on occasion. I make the point in Foundations of Psychodrama that emotions (sometimes laughter) is not the goal, but rather a side-effect, a frequent accompaniment to the process. Sometimes it's as gentle as an aha. Sometimes the tears that flow represent the welcoming home that which has been split off and missed. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> The next step of course has been mentioned, that the challenge then is how do I integrate that which I have found in the past to be absolutely unacceptable. Sometimes I'm ready and there's almost no problem. Sometimes I have to do a good deal of shadow work, as it has come to be called, to re-vision myself to recognize that I'm more (whatever) than I thought, but it's okay. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> I note some further types of integration in my book.. </font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Trauma is a different thing---sort of the difference between a broken bone and one that is not only broken, but the fracture breaks through the skin and has become vulnerable to infection (i.e., a "compound" fracture). It's far more than mere repression. Many other primitive coping mechanisms have been energized.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> The whole dynamic of trauma has become more appreciated only since the late 1970s or early 1980s, and many psychological theories developed before that time didn't really take this into consideration. </font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> The point is that there are no procedures or processes that are good for every client. That which may help A may be contraindicated for B. </font></div>
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<div>Are we referring to re-traumatizing and abreaction interchangeably? My sense of abreaction is that it is a<strong> </strong>type of catharsis, a reliving of an experience in order to purge it of its emotional hold (often unconscious hold) over client behaviors and attitudes and feelings etc. </div>
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<div>While abreaction could retraumatize a client, I suppose, it is certainly not necessarily so - right??</div>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Mon, November 9, 2009 2:01:20 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Fwd: New View of TSM and 2010 training group<br></font><br>While this concern has come forward, I will again send out my training schedule on the Therapeutic Spiral Model for next year. these are NOT advanced courses for psychodrama. They are basic courses that teach you how to use doubling, role reversal and beginning directing skills safely so that the concerns that Adam brings up in his last email are NOT repeated in a new generation of students. The first course alone gives you a way to assess your client for individual, group, couples or family therapy, whether a trauma survivor or not, what are the strengths and weaknesses. It also allows you to DEFINE what roles are needed to achieve a state of spontaneity as a researcher and clinician. It is an invaluable skill for anyone who will ever direct a psychodrama.
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<div>now to blow my own horn for my sake, but for the sake of the many many many protagonist who will be in your hands. I can get very excited about this.....the sense of responsibility we have as directors, healers. It comes from the mistakes I saw made and the ones I made as a young director. I come now to a time of humbly generativity in passing on what I have created. Join me in Charlottesville to learn simple safety that will stay with you forever. </div>
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<div>I work out payment plans so dont let money stop you. Kate<br>
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<div>Many people seem to be under the misperception that TSM is only for advanced students. This is simply not true. In fact, given that TSM stresses safety, safety, safety, it is actually one of the best models for students new to psychodrama! Not only do you learn the basic techniques of psychodrama--doubling, role reversal, and how to direct.....but you learn how to do it safely. See our new Level One training group for 2010. You can take one course, or you can join the whole series for the year and be with a group of like minded people studying the state of the art work on psychodrama and trauma together for a year. Welcome Dr Kate. Go to <a href="http://www.therapeuticspiral.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.therapeuticspiral.org</a> for more information. </div>
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<div>This 5 day summer residential workshop teaches students the all important Prescriptive Roles of Scene 1 in all TSM psychodramas. To prevent retraumatization in all psychodrama working with trauma, the director learns to empower the protagonist and the group with the Observing ego, the roles of restorative strengths, the Containing and Body Doubles and the Manager of Defenses. When all of these roles are enacted on the stage, what you find is that you have have, in fact, DEFINED the state of spontaneity and the protagonist is able to stay in the here and now. For many decades psychodramatists have said, how can you tell if someone is spontaneous? Well this course teaches the Prescriptive roles so that you can make sure that each and every protagonist you direct is always in a state of spontaneity that can lead to new creative action. Team practice in the TSM roles of director, Assistant leader and Trained Auxiliary ego, as well as opportunities to be a protagonist in safe psychodramas. </div>
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<div>December 3-5 The Trauma Triangle</div>
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<div>This weekend workshop introduces students to the TSM Triangles of the Victim-Perpetrator-Abandoning Authority. During any traumatic experience of overwhelming stress or violence, the personality structure internalizes these three roles. Most people easily understand the experience of victim and perpetrator, but the most important role is that of being abandoned. Abandoned to the violence of emotional, psychological, physical, sexual or spiritual abuse by mothers, fathers, teachers, ministers, priests, and others teaching the child that she or he is not worth love, care, support. In turn, we learn to abandon ourselves to future violence, to eating disorders, to alcohol, to drugs, to more benign neglect of lack of self care. This workshop teaches how to identify your own trauma patterns by "walking the trauma triangle" and then how to break the triangle by using the Prescriptive role and find true self care. </div>
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<div>Cost: $425 10% ASGPP discount 25 hours of training Student housing in friends homes for $25/night or housing in the English Inn for single of shared room of $99. </div>
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<div>Total course cost: $2050. 10% ASGPP discount $1845 If full course paid for by January 1st, 2010. $1750. Pay pal accepted. </div>
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<div>Led by Dr Kate Hudgins, Ph.D. TEP, Clinical Psychologist, Founder of the Therapeutic Spiral Model, International Expert on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Received Innovator's Award in 2001 and the Scholar's Award in 2009 from the ASGPP. She will be assisted by fellow TSM Trainers Mimi Cox, LCSW, PAT, Colleen Baratka, MA, RDT, TEP, Catherine Wilson, RN, M.Ed, CP and Jeanne Burger, Ed.D., TEP, all original members of the TSM training group from 1992-1995. </div>
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<div>Workshops held in Charlottesville, Virginia. </div>
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<div>Kate Hudgins, Ph.D., TEP</div>
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<div>Clinical Psychologist</div>
<div>Director of Training</div>
<div>Therapeutic Spiral International, LLC</div>
<div><a href="http://ww.therapeuticspiral.org/" target="_blank">ww.therapeuticspiral.org</a></div>
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