Thought field therapy and its derivatives: Rapid relief of mental health problems through tapping on the body

Primary Care and Community Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 123-127

  Mollon, Phil ^a  

^a LISTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EFT; Emotional freedom techniques; Energy psychology; Meridians; Psychoanalytic energy psychotherapy; Seemorg matrix; TAT; TFT; Thought field therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958141743     PISSN: 17468841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17468840701750836     Document Type: Review

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