If people wish to cooperate with each other in pursuit of common goals and purposes, there must be in place a means of communicating with each and agreed-upon structures, including an accumulated knowledge base, that guarantee that their activities will mesh together well and work smoothly toward these ends. With no established means of communication and no agreed-upon structures to guide the activity, little or no progress can be made. The purpose of an organization such as ours is to provide the infrastructure that makes this progress possible.
Frank A (Sarge) Gerbode, MD

How Applied Metapsychology International (AMI) and the Traumatic Incident Association (TIRA) Support Your Work as a Client or Trainer

Clients, practitioners and trainers all benefit from a central co-ordination and communication point that makes for a stronger and more congruent subject. To understand the purpose and functions of Applied Metapsychology International and the Traumatic Incident Reduction Association, see our new posters, below.

Though many branches of therapy have supporting organization, our unique subject and method require an organization built specifically to support it. In fact, Applied Metapsychology differs in several key points from other practices…

Based in its heritage as an educational method, AMP’s philosophy and method works with a collection of important features:

First of all, it is person-centered. Person-centeredness may mean different things to different people; within the subject of AMP it means that:
- The client is the expert on their own experience.
- Practitioners work with their clients to choose the issues of greatest interest to work on.
- The client determines when they are done working on something and are ready to end the session or move on to another issue.
While this work can be adapted to the “50 minute hour” if necessary, AMP sessions are typically free of time limits. A typical session often lasts an hour to an hour and a half, though some will be significantly longer or shorter, allowing the client to complete what they are working on within that session.
A session ends when an end point occurs; the client has reached a satisfying sense of completion on the issue being addressed.
The highly structured and person-centered nature of the subject allows for the training of people who do not have degrees in mental health.

All this constitutes a new paradigm of practice. The supportive organization insures a higher level of success and satisfaction in doing this vital work for both practioners and clients. Our organization exists solely to keep the subject true to its core values, continuing to develop and, just as importantly to serve the people who use it.

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