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Friday, August 24, 2007

Etiotropic TM: Author Background as Related to Blog Rationale

Friday, August 24, 2007
Etiotropic TM: Author Background as Related to Blog Rationale
I'm initiating this blog with a first post that describes both me and the blog's rationales for being. I tried to put this information under "About Me" but no such luck given that this is my first time at using this blog format. Of course, if you've studied ETM TRT for a while, you may know that its professional and patient education tutorial has been provided on the Web since 1994. ETM TRT information was published then as one of the first distance learning programs, and referenced as such in 1997 by Southern Florida University in its 11 million dollar federal grant request as the standard to emulate. So I’m not totally inexperienced with the Internet. But despite my current shortfalls in administering this format, I do want you to have this start up information at least somewhere until it can be placed appropriately upfront as an explanation of my role in ETM TRT for new readers.

Welcome to my blog! It supports Etiotropic TM™.First, please let me give you some quick basic information for scope and legal notification. “Etiotropic TM” ™* is a trademark representing the complete works for the 30 titled Etiotropic Trauma Management Series, which includes Etiotropic Trauma Management (ETM)™, Trauma Resolution Therapy (TRT)™, the free ETM Tutorial with attending professional and patient education instruction, The ETM Online and locally presented Professional Training Certification Schools with attending texts, and the 39 lecture 1500 slide presentation series that supports the locally presented version of the ETM TRT Professional Training and Certification School. The "TM," is the acronym for Trauma Management. Hence, although the trademark is a standin for many components of the ETM TRT system, it specifically translates to “Etiotropic Trauma Management.”

Because ETM TRT is a structured clinical and management model necessitating professional training and certification, the referenced literature is published primarily for professional patient consumption - use, and not for general professional or layman reading interests. That means that publication of materials has been by demand only. But the large texts, which are also intended to support researchers studying ETM TRT, can be special ordered through any bookstore. This approach was necessary over this past 3o years because we did not want laymen attempting to use ETM TRT as a self help program. That might have a tendency to occur more readily in parts of the country where no Certified ETM TRT therapists existed. ETM TRT requires professional ETM TRT training and certification. Telling people about how wonderful the model was without adequate professional resources to use ETM TRT in their communities was an issue of ethics for us. I was in the process of building a global base of certified ETM TRT professional application, before engendering a blanket book publishing process, when health tragedies affected our activities. Those effects are explained below.

As I understand the numbers received from Licensed ETM TRT Trainers, we currently have between 2500 and 3000 professionals available for administering ETM TRT to patients in certain geographical areas of the country. But it is still quite disheartening to receive requests for treatment, even in places like London and Israel, and not being able to respond affirmatively with a properly Certified ETM TRT Counselor - Therapist - Manager for referral in the individual's location. I've worked on this issue for nearly 25 years and will continue until I can consistently fulfill each request, no matter its location.

This article is a lot like the mission statement, except that I focus on me as the author because the blog template recommends such a presentation. As you will see if you become Etiotropic TM certified and then deliver the model to trauma victims or organizations, it is a cause much more than an economic endeavor. Hence, I want you to get the gist of my part and views as the creator of both Etiotropic TM and the cause.

With my wife, Nancy Carson, we began the creation of Etiotropic TM as early as 1978, and formally in 1979, now 30 years ago. On thorough research of the model you will discover that it was created and assiduously researched and developed under extremely strict standards which included overseeing by government and JCAH licensing authorities, which included annual audits which covered pedantically such things as (among many) problem definitions, goals, methods, item progress, and treatment results and conclusions. The development activities lasted until 1985, being administered in 6 predominantly family oriented psychological trauma and chemical dependency treatment centers.Funding is important because it demonstrates our commitment to ETM TRT. They (and the six facilities) were financed originally by Nancy and me with all the resources that we owned. Thereafter, four friends and associates added additional funding of nearly 750 thousand dollars, taking the total equity capitalization to 1.2 million dollars of private contributions (again, including our own). They supported our clinical efforts. Given that we were conservative in our economic social philosophical values and beliefs, this life project has never accepted government or comparable grant funding, other than through training contracts delivered to government employees, etc. My thoughts then and now were that if I constructed an idea for helping lots of people, that it was my responsibility to pay for that effort, not taxpayers who likely did not share my beliefs of the value of our work and our aspirations for its social accomplishments.

You may find partial and full descriptions of me, credentials, history and development of ETM TRT at Etiotropic.com / ETM Tutorial / Overview: author ETM History and (detailed) ETM Tutorial / Professional / Academic / Development. The latter discloses the clinical environment, epistemologies, and as you will see extraordinarily thorough and correct empirical measurement and application processes and under what authorities pertaining to ETM TRT's usage by end clients / patients and the information necessary to ethically pass permission to employ ETM TRT by acceptably credentialed management and clinical professionals.

By virtue of my being the creator of Etiotropic TM, the person having the most complete experience with both its clinical and strategic applications, and by virtue of my copyright and trademark ownership of the models beginning in 1981, and through agreement with my wife, I am the final authority on ETM interpretation, training designs and certification of professionals and organizations.

Of importance to ETM TRT's dissemination since the finality of their development in 1985, Nancy and I withdrew from our leadership activities starting in 1995 due to health tragedies. She sustained breast cancer and then in the same year severe brain damage from a head-on highway accident caused by an overturning out of control truck totaling all automobiles and nearly us. She also has been diagnosed in 2006 with Lymphoma-Leukemia, which is a new encumbrance to my efforts, as taking care of her is my primary task. For myself, I am 100% disabled by combat occurring in 1965 and 1966 with my unit in the United States Marine Corps (1964-1970). I also sustained in 1996 an oral surgery accident where a suction device used inside and above the maxillary sinus to find a possibly lost root tip became entangled in the 5 cranial and infraorbital 2 nerves, hence, damaging for life the trigeminal nerve. Not sufferable chronic pain in the face, right eye and head are lifetime medical issues for me. Coincidentally, I am also disabled 100% by the malady which is diagnosed as Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia.

As a consequence of her injuries and maladies Nancy has completely removed herself from any work pertaining to the model's applications. I have been incompetent to speak publicly or for that matter in even private relationship settings until just recently, that is, last year, 2006. My rationale for starting this activist like blog as support for the ETM TRT training and patient education sites results from the obviously continuing mal designed and even more horribly applied nosotropic approach which during my sickness I regrettably allowed to gain the upper hand in addressing psychological trauma management and treatment. That model's incompetence was demonstrated saliently in the Washington Post articles of June 17, 2007, that showed the horrific incompetence that regularly attends nosotropically based professional usages and applications, in this description regarding its application by Walter Reed Hospital, apparently supported by the VA. As usual, the defense was that the hospital didn't have enough help, not that their basic models for management and care of combat trauma were incompetent.

Over my years of standing by (or on the sidelines) in medical disarray I’ve seen amazing acts of malfeasance by every level of credentialed professional. Discussions in the media of our capacities to address trauma seemed to come (and still do) from the Freudian or Skinner eras. Freud argued that after catharsis, the locus of trauma etiology lay in childhood sexual issues. Today, where they may have dropped the sexual causation theories, many Nosotropic based trauma experts say that the childhood has to be addressed. Many claim that because of those issues, crisis position job seekers did so for the thrill, the need to reinvent more trauma or life on the edge. That is horrible projections of therapists’ on traumatic event sources onto their patients. As usual, behaviorists interpreted their perspectives as the only perspectives, because they were the true scientists studying human beings. Writing in 1988, Scrignar, a noted disciple of the great behaviorist Wolpe, his treatment for trauma victims as putting a rubber band around their wrists and telling them to snap it every time they had a thought that might be a trauma symptom. Then they were apparently supposed to adjust their thoughts so that they had them no more. I addressed those moronic theories at the time (1980s), Freud’s and Scrignar’s and many nosotropic confusiousist ** theories and applications by simply saying that we didn’t address trauma that way. But now, the Washington Post description of DOD and VA malfeasance at Walter Reed and their responses by their leaderships, the same that occurred at the end of the Vietnam war, became for me the proverbial straw that broke this camel’s back.

I'm dedicating this blog and the rest of my life's public efforts to correcting that unfortunate, for the American public and its leaders, decade long lapse of mine and the consequent harm done by the application of the invalid Nosotropic hamster exercising treadmill approach as an additional lifelong symptom coping therapeutic tragedy put upon trauma victims. Etiotropic TM will eventually win over its competitive Nosotropic paradigm, albeit, likely when I am no longer living (am now working in my later years for my gene pool - but exercise with hope), and bring about a complete end not only to psychological trauma as it is retained in the memories of its victims, but importantly bringing about an end to the unnecessary, as they are preventable, instances of trauma caused by perpetrators of violence. They exploit for pecuniary or political advancement the unresolved trauma as it is implanted into the minds of their targets and their target systems. Etiotropic TM will inevitably, likely delayed into the next century because of the massive denial of trauma etiology by Nosotropic therapists, end criminal violence. But that capacity won't be realized by managers and their public until they grasp the true meanings and profound differences in ideas and perceptions of psychological trauma that currently run their lives from what is possible with Etiotropic TM. It can and will end the use of terrorism for waging war and supporting criminal activities. Consequently, the purpose of this blog is to assert the fraud perpetrated on western civilization by Nosotropic leaders, and bring it to an end, then allowing our people to not be controlled by trauma imposed individual and systemic psychopathologies.Sincerely,Jesse CollinsAuthor: Etiotropic TM, which includes The Etiotropic Trauma Management Series.

*Etiotropic TM™ is ® pending; All materials and titles are copyrighted between 1981 and the current period, 2007.

Copyrights are federally registered with the US Government’s Copyright Registration Agency.

**Confusiousist I made this word up to represent a perpetually confused expert.

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Editorial Perspective - Bias

This editorial support to the ETM TRT site is written from a perspective of, and thus bias toward, how the clinical and management worlds look when the capacity to cure psychological trauma and PTSD are completely and wholly available for practical implementation into the decision making processes of free civilizations. That awesome power has never been presented, secularly, to humankind in its history, until the last 30 years through the application of Etiotropic TM. However, severe injury and illnesses for 14 of those years have prevented the story's being fully told at the public debate level. It would not be coming out today except that the return to Vietnam era psychiatric / bureaucratic management abuse of American veterans demonstrates a new and apparently always continuing, under the current management anyway, need for active advocacy. The abuse comes from that group's inability to cure psychological trauma or PTSD. The subsequent coping, or Nosotropic as it is called, approach failure produces an ever burgeoning treatment response subject to burnout, changing politics, devisive intra and inter helping agency idealogical struggles, Y and I (young and inexperienced) therapists and managers, perpetual experiments on veterans and constant unnecessary requirements of funding increases from the taxpayer. This real quagmire can be ended by simply switching the formal psychological trauma psychiatric designation from disorder to injury, and addressing as the latter is Etiotropically instead of Nosotropically. Stop treating deep wounds with psychological bandaids so that veteran's don't have to spend the rest of their lives in polypharmacological medicated growth groups trying to overcome being additionally and negligently psychiatrically disabled by psychiatrists.

Jesse W. Collins II

What is the Cause that this Writing Serves?

Because Etiotropic Trauma Management and Trauma Resolution Therapy (herein ETM TRT) represent not only a higher level of trauma treatment and management services than its competition, ETM TRT also brings a completely different PTSD management paradigm from that used by our government. Hence, ETM TRT can do lifetimes more than that for which our leaders and thus the public can even hope, not to mention expect on a routine basis. In that regard, here is what ETM TRT can do for our country, America, therein delineating, without hyperbole - grandiosity - exception, the cause to which this blog is dedicated. Functioning etiotropically (focus on etiology), as different from the nosotropic (symptom focused) model, ETM TRT can:

1. Remove all of psychological trauma's adverse effects from every returning and qualifying war veteran (no more combat caused PTSD).

2. Remove all of trauma's effects from every qualifying individual citizen and system (crisis management styled organization) in the US.

3. Stop preventable, (as attends alcoholism and violent crime) thus prospective future, trauma causing events from occurring.

4. Remove the weapon of terrorism as a methodological option for advancing political control by Islamic jihadists, (or other people who want to rule the world through dictate), by killing unbelievers such as free thinking - open religion choosing Americans, and in the process trying to “annihilate” this beautiful, just, caring and honorable country.

A Blog Intent: End US and State Government PTSD Treatment and Management Malfeasance

As the Executive Director, founder, and CEO of a family based national chain of chemical dependency and psychological trauma treatment centers, and more, and author of Etiotropic Trauma Management and Trauma Resolution Therapy (herein ETM TRT), it was recommended to me by medical staff to address competitive theories and models in the following manner. “When a person presented with his hands amputated because they had warts, I should say only that ‘We don't treat warts that way.’" Saying that method was barbaric wasn't done. Appearing mild, non reactive and above all politically correct was supposed to benefit me by making me seem more professional. Not saying bad things about the competition was a good thing to do, I was told. Of course, since I've learned that the true benefits go to the medical - psychological professions, the businesses that professionals create out of their practices.

I followed that method for almost thirty years. Although I compared the competing concepts, for example, the nosotropic trauma management approach to our etiotropic one, I did so by not beating up on those thinkers. My mantra was to do the best I could for patients and clients, and not engage in public professional altercations. Taking a cue from public relations persons, that is also a great marketing model used today by most corporations.

To show compliance with the non attack model, you'll see that neither the 100 MB Etiotropic Tutorial nor the similarly sized Online Professional Training School says even a sardonic word against competitive theories and methods. Again, I did that for nearly 3 decades, holding firm to the commitment to the PC concept.

That began to change last fall (2006) and this summer (2007). Following the appalling PTSD treatment scandal where Iraq War veterans with the injury were warehoused in a rundown motel infested with rodents and no care, another article about malfeasance in the treatment and management of Iraq War PTSD affected combat veterans was published in the Washington Post on June 17, 2007. It showed that Walter Reed Hospital, the agency causing both scandals, and the battlefield to treatment system were not just incompetent, but the consequences of their failures could, if not corrected, be horrendous for many veterans' lifetimes to come. And it was greatly anger producing to me to see arrogant professionals like those having treatment management responsibilities at the top try to duck the issue. They did not need more inadequately trained and still incompetent therapists. Their problem was poor research and study of all available methods, especially those already historically approved, as was ETM TRT probably long before the current staff had completed medical school. Had these government leaders done their research job thoroughly, they would have found that 17 years ago Walter Reed, and the entire military's crisis trauma management Chaplain based responders to tragedy, had, respectively, elected to put ETM TRT into its facility and virtually to all major education training branches of the armed services. It had been studied resolutely, being in the end resoundly decided to be "the best psychological trauma treatment and crisis management model available in this country."

Apparently the Gulf War, followed by military cutbacks during the 1992 - 1998 administrations, sent the Hospital as well as the military back into the dark ages of PTSD understanding, which was the period prior to the 1980 promulgation of PTS as a disorder by the DSM III. As new groups of professionals, that is, therapists and managers, were assigned duty to the Hospital, and the military, they stayed ignorant as were their previous leaders.

I intend to show in this blog that the VA's PTSD treatment system, considering itself the pinnacle of knowledge of treatment of combat trauma, was an accomplice in that malfeasance. Consequently, our discharged service men and women suffered greatly and have continued to do so. Moreover, that group is looked to for expertise, as in the VA's National Center for PTSD. But they suffer the same theoretical and application failures.

From this point on, one of the missions of this blog is to reverse Government mal-study, mal-research, mal-treatment and mal-management of psychological trauma. I will keep the ETM TRT professional and patient education programs politically correct, but do the best I can to bring about absolute positive and perfect, even guaranteed, address of psychological trauma as it is especially caused by combat, by confronting where deserved moronic theories, methods, professionals and whole paradigms. There'll be no more ruination of veteran's lives by Walter Reed Hospital styled shameful gross negligence. On my life of this last thirty years bringing the finest care to and that can be had by trauma victims, I will make it so until I am no more.

And we'll put the professionals in prison who amputate people's hands because they have warts.

Sincerely,

Jesse Collins

Etiotropic TM Thesis and Mission Scope: A Revolutionary Trauma Management Paradigm

In its often referenced as “revolutionary” paradigm, Etiotropic TM, which is the trademark for Etiotropic Trauma Management (ETM), manages psychological trauma's individual and systemic, including organizational, effects starting with their occurrences and proceeding to their reversals, reconciliations, or resolutions. These "effects" when presenting in individuals are medically called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). As different from every other attempt (which always focuses on symptoms) to manage trauma that is available today, ETM focuses on etiology. Hence medically speaking, the problem solving focus delineation and name are considered and called “Etiotropic.” Because the other model (with lots of methods doing similar things) focuses on symptoms, its medical management problem solving delineation and name are termed “nosotropic.”

In ETM in fact, the Etiotropic focus is structured so tightly on its goal that ETM precludes attempts to change, or even identify, symptomatic thoughts and behavior while ETM's clinical treatment component, Trauma Resolution Therapy (TRT), expunges the trauma's etiology. If that axiom of ETM, that is, address etiology first and never try to control or change symptoms, for example, through learning to cope, is not followed, the symptoms will maintain their existences, albeit in other manifestations or through dormantcy, and will preclude, usually unknowingly by Nosotropic administrators or their patients, the address of etiology, thus perpetuating forever symptom existences.

Why is it that way? Etiology and symptoms are mutually inclusive. You can’t have one without the other. And they dance with each other forever, that is, as long as a hint of etiology remains.

Professional clinicians and managers will find that once the etiology is reversed, there is no remaining need to teach people to cope with symptoms, as they will not exist absent their etiologies. Can you imagine? Nosotropic (such as cognitive behaviorial) dedicated therapists will never again have to tell trauma victims how to live life. That is, symptoms will disappear automatically and completely upon the trauma etiologies' resolutions. That’ll be all there is of psychological trauma and its effects. When applied under ETM TRT administrative rules, that amazing outcome is guaranteed.

ETM and TRT are made available through free tutorials and fee based course training and certification for professionals found at this blog's primary educational site. It is Etiotropic Psychological Trauma Management at http://etiotropic.org. The ETM Tutorial also provides complete layman based education for patients or clients of licensed ETM TRT clinicians and managers.

This blog supports etiotropic.com and its educational programs by providing discussion and support for Certified ETM clinicians, managers, researchers, and any person who is interested in psychological trauma as it is addressed by ETM TRT.

Because of ETM TRT's extraordinary treatment capacities, it has an equally extraordinary value in the management of traumatized systems and perpetrators of trauma causing events intended for the purpose of manipulating people, including entire populations. For example, one symptom element fosters denial of the severity of the damage by the victims' supporting the perpetrator. When the etiology is removed, so goes the denial. The perpetrator is cooked and can no longer function in that system he is attempting to control through administration of the traumatic events.

So it naturally follows that this blog also has a great global and necessary cause. It is to engage government (such as the VA and DOD), social cultural, and all supporting Nosotropically based epistemologies with the intent to shift our culture's trauma management approaches from Nosotropically focused paradigms, which have always failed miserably (witness Walter Reed Hospital, June 17, 2007, Washington Post articles as a tip of the iceberg of malfeasance), and will continue to fail, to Etiotropic ones, in this instance referring to the ever successful ETM TRT. It is the only purely (unfettered even by partial Nosotropic designs) Etiotropic trauma management model available. Should we, that is, I and those who agree with this theory and plan, be successful in this effort, Americans can expect in the minimum, and without hyperbole – grandiosity – exaggeration, to achieve the following:

1. Remove all of psychological trauma's adverse effects from every returning and qualifying war veteran (no more combat caused PTSD).
2. Remove all of trauma's effects from every qualifying individual citizen and system (crisis management styled organization) in the US.
3. Stop preventable, (as attends alcoholism and violent crime) thus prospective future, trauma causing events from occurring.
4. Remove the weapon of terrorism as a methodological option for advancing political control by Islamic jihadists, (or other people who want to rule the world through dictate), by killing unbelievers such as free thinking - open religion choosing Americans, and in the process trying to “annihilate” this beautiful, just, caring and honorable country.

Hence, this blog is not just about PTSD information and treatment by one of many programs. It is about a cause worth fighting for if ever there was one: Changing cultural management paradigm from one which has never worked, to one that is guaranteed to perform its duties as described in its literature every single time, in the process effacing trauma and its repetitive effects from the hearts and minds of our people and in the interim ending the uses of psychological trauma by perpetrators to control or destroy our lives.

Since its inception starting nearly 30 years ago, I’ve always known what ETM TRT can achieve both individually and systemically: they are the magnificent things that I've presented here. This is nearly my 30th year in making a contribution to this wonderful calling.

Sincerely,

Jesse Collins

PS. Please read as support to this statement "Etiotropic TM: Author's Background as Related to Blog Mission."