EtiotropicTM OPED: Just Effective or Cure? Integrity? Only Complete Trauma Management?: Discussion with the Christian Pacifists

Friday, March 4, 2011

Discussion with the Christian Pacifists

Thank you for a very fine, well written and taken comment. You also are a kind person. I respect pacifists greatly. But when pacifism is administered aggressively politically in a manner that I believe leads to suicide of our nation, then I will confront such applications vociferously. Moreover, I've written on the issue of peace and the decisions to fight in my own work for 35 years. I've been the CEO of a chain of licensed psychological trauma treatment centers; run 3 database management systems; two distance learning programs, and two professional and patient education tutorials for the Etiotropic address of psychological trauma. I am telling you these things to advance understanding between us so that you hopefully are not too hurt by your understandings of the complete meanings of my comments. I'm the author of 39 professional and patient education books on psychological trauma and its treatment and management, to include one on the pathogenesis of guerilla warfare and terrorism, and its cure when approached Etiotropically. Through the organizations that I've founded and managed, I've provided training and consultation to the department of defense and particularly the Chaplains program for all of the armed services. I'm also the licensing authority for ETM Clinical Counseling and Management Certification program, having trained and certified approximately 2500 government licensed psychotherapists. For your additional information, 30% of those therapists are also licensed by the National Christian Counselor Association. I have seen a "Few Good Men" several times and both enjoyed and agreed with the theme and principles espoused by the film. None of my Marine officers in any way supported the character played by Jack Nickolson. His thesis does not resemble mine in this or usually any matter. And if you still think so after reviewing what I have to say in total, then work needs to be done on conveying the correct notion.

I do not believe that all people are appropriately constructed to serve in the military. I don't support conscription. Military activity can be at times tough stuff. Fighting, killing another human being and nearly dying, in some instances multiple times, is very difficult work. It has lasting or lifetime effects, one of which is to split the soul, regardless of whether the Greek or Hebraic definition is applied, indefinitely, depending upon the process the affected individual or his or her culture incorporates for reconciling that division. I appreciate pacifists. i do not believe that they are epistemologically suited to serve in the armed services, or least in a combat role, albeit Alvin York would belie that notion. I believe and agree with the European charter for the world pacifist organization that was adapted correctly to note that fighting as a defense of one's home and family and near neighbors is a legitimate response. Regrettably, here i cannot and should not reference my publications on these issues. I hope, therefore, that you will be satisfied that I cannot address in detail or other completeness all that you raised in your reply to my editorial. My guess about this part of this difference between us is that where we will not likely agree in the end, I do believe that more discussion between us would mollify some of the differences. i am waiting for approval on a reply to the gentlemen published below you. It is posted in two parts due to length (this piece will require two posts also) and it will likely address some of the issues that you may be raising here. I don't know.

My objection to the protests against the families and this consideration by the current press's address and the supreme court is that I posit that this issue is a national security matter that has not received discussion in the various debates. In particular, one of the placards referenced in both the literature and the photos declares or otherwise exclaims for the death of American "Soldiers." One of my arguments is that such a declaration of principle crosses the line from legitimate protest to an attack upon the armed forces; that becomes treason from this perspective. Thereafter, I do not believe that the protest is advocating any longer for just a particular set of thesis dissemination to the public, but rather is advocating for the overthrow of a system, and in its strategy, is implementing an operational component of that prospective thesis, particularly in this referenced instance through force.

That aggressiveness in not a part of pacifist doctrine and which i know very well. Where I hesitate to notice my own work thoroughly here with links, your criticisms of me go to my identity as a person, professional in the noted field, and former Marine and that it should be couched in their historical terms, not those applied in your comments. You may Wiki Etiotropic Trauma Management and Trauma Resolution Therapy if you would like to know who I am and for what I stand on these related issues. I have also been seriously ill for fifteen years and not operational as I was earlier in my activities.

Returning to the issue in conflict, I believe that the additional reply that I wrote in response to the gentleman's comment below yours will shed additional light on my perspective. Whatever that light, there will always be controversy arising in consensually managed societies between the right and need to speak freely and the prospective harm that that speech may carry to someone else or to the society. We and the Supreme Court are hammering one of those conflicts out here. So far, the issue that i raise has not been given a fair hearing. I'm, striving for that under what i believe are proper rules for debate. I also have published this thesis on one of my blogs. I do not operate any blogs for commercial interests.

I argued at the time for Callie to be imprisoned or worse. in the Marine Corps, any kind of harm to civilians, unless accidental, no matter free fire zones resulted in one's doing time at Portsmouth (the Naval prison). It was a very strictly run war in my unit and all of those to which i attended through the Central Highlands between 1965 and late 1966.

The abuses upon return to my country were not inhuman. But they were attacking of a part of me which had been the best that I had given, or have since in my life to this world. And the calumny and opprobrium applied to me, and the men who I respected so very much and who were killed, did hurt to the extent that my combat injuries were not addressable in that earlier environment, leading me to postpone that activity until the environment was conducive to resolution and proper consideration many years later. Thank you very much for your sensitivity to this issue.

You were polite and courteous in your criticisms of my post. I thank you for your good character and kindness exemplified thereby. And there's no doubt that I'm probably a pretty selfish person. At least i have thought so, too. I'll keep working on it, though, you can be assured.

Forgot: No. I do not think such people are idiots nor do I believe that at any time that I meant or intended to imply that agreement with the justices was accessory or even supportive of treason. That notion sounds preposterous. But I will look again at the writing to see if there is an error in grammar or even prospectively unconscious intent.

Again, thank you for your educational and meaningful response to my comments.

Jesse W. Collins II

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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."