I don't wish to dwell too much on such a ludicrous aura-seeing, tarot-card reading huckster as Philip Kilvington Parker, but I recently came across
his PhD thesis from September 2019, and thought others here might find it interesting. It's based around a close variant of the LP he called "The Rediscovery Process", which he managed to inflict upon a number of unfortunate drug addicts.
He devotes part of his PhD thesis to a whinge about ME patients and their "highly critical commentary":
During the period of developing the programme I and researchers associated with it were subject to harassment and threats of harm from members of the ME/CFS community who felt our work was distracting from "real" biomedical research (McKie, 2011), and this in fact partly informed my choice to work with SUD rather than those with ME/CFS, although this is a core client group of the LP. I was aware that this critical awareness of my work would mean that publishing clinical research would result in highly critical commentary on it, and as there has been a tendency to attempt to discredit my work, there was a concern that poor results may result in a further deluge of negative activity.
While (McKie, 2011) doesn't actually appear in his list of references, it may refer to Robin McKie's notorious
attack on the ME patient community (the one containing all of the bogus/overblown tales of "harassment") that was published in the pages of the Guardian in 2011; if it does, McKie did not mention Parker or his process, although he did refer to Crawley.
A sample TRP conversation with a client is given; it is clearly very close to the LP, as the same neologistic vernacular ("dûing" [sic]) is
used in both. In fact, I suspect the only reason Parker did not use the LP name was to avoid negative publicity.
Trainer: What would you love to change?
Client: I'm really anxious about flying
Trainer: Is that an active or passive statement?
Client: Oh yeah. I dû [1] anxious about flying.
Trainer: How does that feel different?
Client: It already feels easier. If feels a bit more distant, like I have options. I feel I might be able to change it.
Trainer: So what is the next step in changing it?
Client: To apply a stop.
Trainer: What kind would work best and shift you into more helpful neurology?
Client: A deeply calm one. (Makes a calm stop gesture and movement. Continues to "Choice", then to "Coach")
Client takes role of self-coach and speaks to self: You are doing amazingly; I'll be with you every step of the way; You can do this; Look at what you've already achieved using these skills. What do you want? Client answers their own coach: To feel deeply calm and at peace during the flight. Like an eagle.
Interested to know if such execrable bilge is generally reflective of PhD-grade work in psychology.
