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Making Nonverbal Sounds With the Body: Ben Franklin’s Contribution to Polyvagal Theory
If we deodorize and destigmatize farting, polyvagal theory could give us another powerful new psychotherapeutic tool.
Are we entering a Renaissance in psychotherapy or descending into the Dark Ages? Something profound seems to be happening but I get mixed signals as to what it is.
Therapy methods previously thought to be securely based on the best evidence are being disparaged — outright trashed. Therapists are urged to abandon them as too ineffective and too slow. Any patients who happen to be listening will learn to stay away from evidence-based treatments, maybe even shift to a trauma-focused therapist if they are already in therapy.
I keep looking, but I cannot find new evidence that contradicts the previous evidence of efficacy and effectiveness.
Acclaimed [by somebody, but we are not told whom] “world experts” who do the disparaging claim dramatic success with alternative treatments in tantalizing anecdotal case reports. These enthusiastic experts never provide basic numbers or minimal details of what they accomplish with whom nor talk much about their failures.