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Acknowledgments

This book sums up the observations and work of Gary Craig and Adrienne Fowlie (1995), who developed and successfully taught Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) in peak performance seminars for a number of years. This book presents these Emotional Freedom Techniques.

These methods are largely an extension of the work described by Roger Callahan (1981, 1985, 1991, 2001) and James Durlacher (1995). Callahan developed his techniques from the work of George Goodheart (1964-78). Goodheart's work is summarized by David Walther (1981, 1988). Callahan creatively and brilliantly developed this highly effective treatment that works for most mental issues. He called this therapy Callahan Techniques™, but later, changed the name to Thought Field Therapy™. Thought Field Therapy™ was praised by Charles Figley and Joyce Carbonell in their study of effective treatments of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Figley and Carbonell, 1996). As compared to other treatment techniques, he noted that Thought Field Therapy™ is extraordinarily powerful, can be taught to nearly anyone, appears to do no harm, does not require the clients to talk about their troubles, and is fast and long lasting (Figley, 1995). Emotional Freedom Techniques, in addition to deserving the above praises, is easier to use.

I am indebted to Gary Craig, both for his permission to summarize his work and for his support and comments. I thank my wife, Jane Flint, and my colleagues Charles Figley, Jasenn Zaejian, Marie Green, Thomas Altaffer, and Richard E Smith for their encouragement. For global feedback, I thank Graig Burns, Shirley McGee, Fred Madryga and Lee Pulos. I extend special thanks to Dana L. Flint, Jo Willems, and Sue McCullough for their careful and detailed editing of the manuscript. In particular, I want to thank Brian Armstrong, of Really Small Vernon Press.

I give thanks to the following people for making contributions and suggestions for the second edition: Thorsten Becker, who made suggestions that simplified the method and for suggestions about the forms and format. I am thankful for David Kahn's assistance in changing the organization and editing sections of the book. I thank Robert Juran for copy-editing the final manuscript.