What research is available regarding Emotional Freedom Technique?

I try to keep an open mind about complementary therapies and therefore would reserve judgement on them until i find good evidence for them one way or the other. I am myself an alternative therapist. However, i do find it very hard to accept that EFT could work. Therefore, i suppose i have two questions. Firstly, are there good quality quantitative studies available on EFT? Secondly, if they aren't, what kind of protocol for research would EFT practitioners find acceptable?What research is available regarding Emotional Freedom Technique?
Plenty of criticism:



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(Note the above are 2009 studies that analyze previous studies).



But this book did it for me: "10-Day Money Makeover: Simple Steps to Create More Money %26amp; Financial Prosperity Using Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)" http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Opsw4鈥?/a>



Stinks of pseudo-babble to me.



Edit: The asker did ask for "good quality quantitative studies" not scam websites and the usual anecdotal, second-hand nonsense that sucks most alties in.
Good answer, Dave.

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What research is available regarding Emotional Freedom Technique?
I once found it hard to believe too. But once I have been in a session where someone suffering from long time heavy migraine got rid of it in this one session. She didn't know about EFT and did another energetic treatment for a while, with result but no satisfying result.



During the session it seemed that the cause for her migraine were a trauma. She thought the trauma was solved through psychologic help she had in the past (from an academically educated university diplom holding person).

Well the person leading the EFT session doesn't even have a high school diplom but through the years she was humble and tried out many things with curiosity.

Of course it's just an anecdote, but a fact is a fact. I could only observe this and her amazing reaction.



I am sure you should be careful with this method. It's not appropriate for everyone, and should be led by the right person, whether he has many diploms are not is not important to me... it's more kind of a talent you should have for these kind of things.
What Dave said. And yes, it is important to keep an open mind about things...however, there are grades of plausibility that should also be considered. The descriptions I have read of EFT...from it's inventor...reek of pseudoscience and mysticism, and don't seem to fit with what we know of how the body works from hundreds of years of increasing knowledge



I did a PubMed literature search, and was unable to find any high quality trials published in reputable medical or scientific journals. Most of the studies in these sorts of things seem to miss an important step....they start looking for things to treat rather than prove the concept itself.



A protocol for proof of concept would be very simple to set up, my guess is that believers would find it unacceptable anyway, which is why it's never been done.What research is available regarding Emotional Freedom Technique?
EFT changed my life. My depression was life long, but l no longer have it. You couldn't have done much research, because you would have become aware of the many lives that have been touched in a very profound way if you had. EFT is based on the fact that what we think effects us physically. This technique is a real gift, you will really do yourself a disservice if you don't look into it. Of course that's you choice. :)
Here is the best place - http://www.eftuniverse.com/index.php?opt鈥?/a>



Although if you're wondering will it work for me? The best thing is to do it fully and completely on many issues to see the results for yourself.



I can't recommend EFT highly enough.