The PTSD breakthrough treatment RTM has been highlighted on CNN on the Jake Tapper Show.

We are pleased to announce that the breakthrough PTSD treatment RTM was featured on CNN's (US television) Jake Tapper Show on March 27, 2024. The RTM is an NLP-based protocol proven to get rid of all symptoms in 90% of clients. (more info below)

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RTM’s studies show 90% PTSD remission, which now make it the most effective and dependable treatment for PTSD available. 

In response to a public accusation of plagiarism, the following statement has been issued by the RTM protocol team. We feel this response contains some interesting updates for our Fellow Member Trainers on current state of research and historical aspects of the project.

>>> While no mention either of NLP or the VK-D technique was made in the brief CNN piece, the most superficial review of RTM publications would show that wherever the history of the protocol is discussed, an appropriate reference to NLP and the VK-D protocol is made.

See, e.g., Gray, R. M. & Liotta, R. F. (2012). PTSD: Extinction, Reconsolidation and the Visual Kinesthetic Dissociation Protocol. Traumatology.18(2), 3-16. DOI 10.1177/1534765611431835;
Gray, R., & Bourke, F. (2015). Remediation of intrusive symptoms of PTSD in fewer than five sessions: A 30-person pre-pilot study of the RTM Protocol. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, 1(2), 85-92. doi:10.3138/jmvfh.3119;
Gray, R., Budden-Potts, D., & Bourke, F. (2017). Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories for PTSD: A randomized controlled trial of 74 male veterans. Psychotherapy Research. doi: 10.1080/10503307.2017.1408973;
Gray, R. & Bolstad, R. (2012). Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In Lisa Wake, Richard Gray & Frank Bourke (Eds.), The Clinical Efficacy of NLP: A critical appraisal (32-46). London, Routledge; and
Gray, R. (2022). The Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories protocol (RTM) for PTSD – An emerging evidentiary treatment. In L. De Rijk, R. M. Gray, & F. F. Bourke (Eds.), Neurolinguistic Programming in Clinical Settings: Theory and evidence-based practice (pp. 35-66). Routledge. DOI 10.4324/9781003198864-3.

[All links to the above-mentioned research papers can be found here.]

Because of the blowback from funding agencies and academic publishers regarding the Research and Recognitions association with NLP, the R and R Project found it necessary to distance itself from NLP in some of its formal presentations and grant requests. However, NLP and VK-D appear whenever the history of RTM is discussed.

Most importantly, extensive work with Tim Halbom, Steve Andreas, and a number of additional NLP experts, culminated in about 2008, in a refined version of classical VK-D including an additional step visualizing successful de-traumatization. Early on, John Grinder was invited to participate in the research. While he declined to participate, he was supportive of the research.

Subsequent to that, R & R staff members discovered the congruence between the VK-D process and the neurological hypothesis of reconsolidation. By 2010, R & R staff further modified the VKD protocol and added Subjective Units of Distress scales to ensure RTM’s compliance with the syntax of reconsolidation (aided by some of the original reconsolidation researchers, Karim Nader and Daniela Schiller).

This refined the basic process so that it could now be defined as a neurological intervention, making it much more effective. Additionally, the protocol was reconfigured into a standardized script to ensure that it could be replicated in scientific research with consistent results. This also added a much higher level of administrative reliability.

RTM’s studies show 90% PTSD remission, which now make it the most effective and dependable treatment for PTSD available. The changes have made RTM sufficiently distinct from VK-D so as to make the association a more historical, rather than, present-time reliance. As a result, RTM is now described, where the history of its development is appropriate, as NLP-derived. <<<

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