ABSTRACT
Understanding the history and evolution of energy psychology is important because through that understanding it is possible to grasp essential points about its nature that can otherwise be missed. It was 1964 when Chiropractor George Goodheart made an observation marking the beginnings of what he came to call Applied Kinesiology, which, in turn, led to energy psychology. As a chiropractor, Goodheart naturally focused upon structural imbalances in the body, to do with postural problems, false alignment of bones etc. John Diamond writes of the differential functions of the two cerebral hemispheres and their interdependence for optimum creative activity. Diamond’s work has proceeded in many directions, resulting in a vast and complex network of observations, insights, and methods. Roger Callahan had been working for about eighteen months with a woman called Mary Ford, who had a long-standing and severe phobia of water. Callahan discovered two complications in the work with some patients: psychological reversal, and neurological disorganisation.
