This question is actually for a friend who has a stuttering problem that is currenty causing something of a crisis situation. I can only find a few references here to stuttering and was wondering if anyone is familiar with thoughts that stuttering might be TMS related. Thanks for any info.
Thanks, guys. I haven't really seen anything either but I'm not as well read on the topic as a lot of you folks here. Unfortunately, this friend, while she would likely be open to TMS ideas, would really need things presented in a more black-and-white way than it looks like I'd be able to do. Just a matter of the idividual psychology. Oh, well...it was just an optimistic idea.
Found this the other day and remembered posting this question way back. See page 269 for the chapter on "Aquired Psychogenic Stuttering" if looking for info on this subject:
Completely off topic but take a look at Dave Elman: Hypnotherapy (sometimes called Findings in Hypnosis).
This book was a summary of the work of this incredible man who worked with many stutterers among other things in the 1950s. (Yes over 50 years ago)
Please note that he does not use just direct suggestion - he uses hypnosis to bring the patent back to the first day they stuttered and finds out what was happening that day.
Many patents who make the conscious connection with the traumatic event discovered show a natural tendency stop stuttering. Note the TMS similarity of having to make the conscious connection with something in the unconscious.
If you like I can send you a short recording made by him with a stutterer so you can see what I mean.
stuttering question
Posted - 12/21/2006 : 07:41:49
