On May 16, I received a copy of a letter that Dr.
Knipe wrote to the EMDRIA Standards and Training Committee asserting that he
deserves credit for authorship of my work, that the committee should therefore
discipline me for not giving it to him, and that the treatment method I teach
is incorrect and dangerous.
Dr. Knipe began asserting his authorship of my work after I
presented my published work at the 2011 Anaheim EMDRIA conference. I
disagreed and explained to him why our two ideas could not be the same
At some point, from what I understand, he began telling people
about his claim to my ideas. Now from his May 16th letter, I
am stunned to discover that he actually attributes words to me that I have
never uttered.
I have provided evidence to the committee to show that the
content of what I teach in my workshops is nothing like what Dr. Knipe made up
and attributed to me. I also provided to the committee a point-by-point
description of the differences between the two ideas and the resulting
differences between the models of treatment for addictive/compulsive disorders.
Nothing I say in my letter is new except for the
articulation of the differences in treatment models. For those people who
have not attended a workshop, I have also included in my letter a link to a
video of one of my workshops as evidence of his false statements about what I
teach.
I am making this matter public because, over the years, Dr.
Knipe has misstated what I teach so that people have a misconception of my
work—and because, by doing so, he has impugned my professional
reputation. A public discussion is necessary in order to set the record
straight.
You can add your voice to this discussion by writing to the
Standards and Training Committee
Click for Dr. Knipe’s letter to the committee
Click for Dr. Miller’s letter to the committee
Click for the article differentiating between Miller and Knipe