From Lynn (who is post-flood) about other techniques.

I did some Stettbacher before I read your article and it used
to send my into psychotic states - I even had my second most
serious attempt at suicide while I was trying to use his technique,
although I had the support of my shrink, I was doing my Stett
sessions alone. The pain was appalling and although it was
possible to make sense of it, what was missing was a dynamic
momentum to put the "bad", the "wrong", all the negative in
a word, OUTSIDE my self. My ego always surrendered to
stronger feelings of guilt and depreciation, throwing my into
deep depression and causing my work to be interrupted.
I had come to the conclusion - with my shrink - that my
emotional world was inaccessible without the turmoil of
guilt and the subsequent depression, and that, when I was
functioning well, a complete seal was put upon my feelings.
I felt disconnected from myself to the point of seeming an
iceberg, and I felt the constant threat over my head of a
crisis coming out of nowhere at ANY time. The systematic
re-directing of ALL agressivity towards the outside - towards
the very people who caused it in the first place was what
made it possible for me to face the pain, feel the feelings and
let detox my brain. Lynn

Yes, and this happens also in primal therapy. Using the self-help
measures one can turn 'thoughts' of need or guilt (rather than sitting
in that pain or trying toexpress it) into anger at the very beginning
of a primal (a detox) and redirect the anger toward parents who didn't
supply that need or made us feel guilty. The primal will be less
painful, end sooner, and be a more effective healing event. There may
be a high and then some depression afterward.This does not mean the
detox crisis was incomplete or unresolved. It's just part of the cycle.
This is what the self-help measures are about, and doing this all day
long at the first sign of an excitatory symptom (a primal, a detox),
rather than just at primal sessions, is what makes recovery rapid.
Ellie