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Aloha colleagues. At the 2004 annual conference of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Mary Paquette invited me to write this column for Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, on a novel treatment approach I have been using in my private psychotherapy practice in Honolulu for the past 4 years. It is called Holographic Memory Resolution (HMR) and it is not evidencebased practice, as there are no published studies on HMR to date, although scientific inquiries have begun at the University of Nevada, Reno, into what occurs during an HMR session. The focus of this research is to produce preliminary studies for double-blind testing of HMR. HMR is not to be confused with Holographic Memory Release developed by Charles Daily, D.C.
Holographic Memory Resolution was developed by Brent Baum, STB, SSL, ICADC, CCH, in the early to mid-1990s. Mr. Baum successfully utilized this technique in working with the trauma victims of the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing as well as the senior staff of TWA Flight 800 out of New York. Today, over 11,000 individuals have been treated with HMR. Having completed a postgraduate training at the Gregorian University in Rome, Mr. Baum served as a pastoral minister for the Catholic Church, a faculty member of Notre Dame Seminary, an archeologist in the Near East, clinical director for Cottonwood Treatment Centers, Inc., Senior Trauma Therapist, addictions counselor, and is a certified hypnotherapist. Mr. Baum maintains a private practice, consults with clients of the Miraval Spa, and conducts HMR training around the world. Mr. Baum maintains a Web site (www.healingdimensions.com) where one may learn much more about HMR than I will be able to share in this brief column.
Holographic Memory Resolution is compatible with the nursing models of Martha Rogers, Jean Watson, and Margaret A. Newman, and is based on principles of quantum physics and the holographic paradigm. It is a nontraumatizing body-mind approach to resolving "frozen feelings" in the nervous system utilizing a client-centered verbal technique as well as an electromagnetic energy technique which enhances the client's ability to visualize-Brent Baum now refers to this technique as a "nervous system support system." Material for the sessions comes directly from the client's subconscious-the healer within-and from the sensations perceived in the physical body. Healing change is achieved by...