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EmoTrance ET stands for Emotional Transformation and is an alternative medicine method based on the theory that by focusing the mind on the corresponding physical sensations, negative emotions can be alleviated. An "EmoTrance" project at a Middlesex school has been denounced by two "senior academics" as "psychobabble" that impairs students' ability to understand science.

In contrast to other similar techniques such as the Emotional Freedom Techniques EFT, Thought Field Therapy TFT and Acupressure, EmoTrance does not use Acupuncture Points and instead works directly with the kinaesthetic feedback from the client.

Background
EmoTrance was designed by Dr Silvia Hartmann, PhD and first presented in 2002. At the time, Hartmann had already produced work on Emotional Freedom Techniques EFT an alternative medicine method and Project Sanctuary which is related to Win Wenger’s Image streaming.

The practice of EmoTrance is based on the work of the American psychotherapist Virginia Satir.

Other aspects of EmoTrance were the direct result of Hartmann’s work on animal behaviour in the early nineties.

The technique was first presented at the 2002 Oxford Energy Psychology Conference held at Oxford University, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, United Kingdom.

In November 2009, Kim Bradley piloted the technique at a London school to train up school children as EmoTrance Practitioners. A teacher reported positive results for releasing exam stress and also for improving strained relationships between students and teachers. However, because the human energy field is unknown to science, David Colquhoun a professor of pharmacology, has labelled EmoTrance as "preposterous make-believe".

Principles
In 2008 Hartmann published the 51 principles of EmoTrance under the name “The EmoTrance Primer”. This freely available text has been translated from British English into German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Italian and Hungarian.