Welcome to Peak States
Therapies Ltd and the Silent Mind Technique™
Peak States Therapies Ltd is the clinical
arm of the Canadian based
Institute for the Study of Peak States
(ISPS). While
investigating the relationship between positive states
of mental health and trauma, ISPS discovered the
underlying cause of voice hearing in schizophrenia
sufferers and obsessive thoughts in the general
population. We are now offering the Silent Mind
Technique™ at our offices in Scotland to voice hearers
who wish to rid themselves of this debilitating problem.
We are also working to introduce it to health services
around the world.
Research
in recent years has increasingly pointed to the key role of
prenatal stress factors in increasing the risk of
schizophrenia. It had been assumed, however, that these
were impossible to address as the brain's development must
have been affected in some irreparable way and that in any
case this was just one contributing factor.
What Grant McFetridge at ISPS has discovered is that in
essence the voice-hearing component of this condition is a
prenatal post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that can be
successfully treated with non-drug trauma healing
methods. Consequently,
he and the ISPS research team have developed the Silent
Mind Technique™ - a range of psychotherapeutic procedures
that heal developmental traumas and thereby greatly reduce
or eliminate voices entirely. This can also lead to a
reduction in other symptoms associated with schizophrenia
such as paranoia.
What is fascinating about this discovery is that almost
everybody has the problem - fortunately most people have a
suppression mechanism that reduces the ‘voices’ to the
level of distracting thoughts. The Silent Mind Technique™,
while being of particular benefit to voice hearers, can
therefore also be of benefit to the general population.
This is ground-breaking work and promises a revolution in
the treatment of schizophrenia and obsessive thoughts. Our
aim is to bring this discovery to the world as soon as
possible by training health care professionals in these
techniques. Until this is accomplished and the methodology
more widely accepted, we are offering the treatment on a
charge for results basis.
We are also investigating the role of prenatal trauma in other conditions such as autism, multiple sclerosis and addictions.