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Unprecedented improvements in short‐term heart rate variability due to Thought Field Therapy: Response to the Pignotti retraction
Author(s) -
Callahan Roger J.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20054
Subject(s) - term (time) , heart rate variability , psychology , standard deviation , audiology , heart rate , cardiology , cognitive psychology , statistics , medicine , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics , blood pressure
Short‐term heart rate variability (S‐HRV) is a valid and reliable measure of health and therapy effectiveness. Pignotti makes critical assertions about S‐HRV with no evidence or authoritative support for these curious assertions. Short‐term measures have advantages over long‐term measures. The power of Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is demonstrated through unprecedented HRV improvements as well as other physiologic indices such as skin color, microscopic measures, and increases in T‐cell numbers after successful TFT. Bilchick and associates' hypothesis (2002), “Each increase of 10 ms in standard deviation of normal‐to‐normal (SDNN) conferred a 20% decrease in risk of mortality (p = .0001),” is a bold and speculative position that appears to have general, if not highly specific, merit when applied to all groups investigated with HRV. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol.