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Tapping in: A step-by-step guide to activating your healing resources through bilateral stimulation

Never has it been so effortless to activate your inner power and resilience than with the remarkable technique known as "resource tapping." Tapping In makes available for the first time a self-guided program for learning this revolutionary…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS

A short term therapy approach to processing trauma: Art therapy and bilateral stimulation

This article describes a dynamic, short-term art therapy approach that has been developed for the treatment of trauma related disorders. Using a modified Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) protocol with alternating tactile and…

Tags: Art Therapy, Auditory Stimulation, Bilateral Stimulation, Short-term Therapy Approach, Tactile Stimulation, Trauma, Trauma Related Disorders

Abordaje EMDR para duelo traumático

Objetivo: El presente artículo describe los resultados cualitativos de la aplicación de un protocolo específico de EMDR en un caso de una paciente que cursa un duelo traumático. Método: Se revisan aspectos teóricos relacionados en la terapia EMDR, el…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Brain Hemispheres, Dual Attention, Early Intervention, Posttraumatic Growth, Trauma, Traumatic Episode Protocol

Alternating bilateral stimulation as a treatment for dissociative phenomenology

This article will present alternating bilateral stimulation (ABS) as the critical component of EMDR.

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Dissociation, Treatment

An orienting response model for EMDR: Research, clinical applications, and new instrumentation

Participants will learn about: 1) the Orienting Response (OR) interpretation of EMDR phenomena, the relationship of the OR to sleep and dream research, affect theory, and information processing; 2) research into the effects of variations of stimuli…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Dream Research, Modality, Orienting Response, Sleep

Application of EMDR in the treatment of major depressive disorder: A case study

This article presents a case study applying Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing in major depressive disorder. The study describes the application of Shapiro’s Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model in the treatment of major depressive…

Tags: Adaptive Information Processing, AIP, BHUJ Experience, Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Case Study, Depression, EMs, Eye Movements, Major Depressive Disorder, Somatic Symptom

Applications of client self administered bilateral stimulation in the treatment of trauma

This article looks at some of the situations where client self-administered bi-lateral stimulation has facilitated EMDR by increasing the client’s sense of control during therapy. Three conditions where this may be appropriate are discussed and…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation

Bilateral alternating auditory stimulations facilitate fear extinction and retrieval

Disruption of fear conditioning, its extinction and its retrieval are at the core of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Such deficits, especially fear extinction delay, disappear after Alternating Bilateral Stimulations (BLS) during Eye Movement…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Fear Conditioning, Fear Extinction, Skin Conductance, Stress

Bilateral brain stimulation in trauma therapy: A randomized clinical trial

39 subjects: 2 groups for 1 session of psychotherapy: A- with conventional EMDR protocol (using BSL with eyes, tactile or auditory, as chosen by the patient) B-with the same protocol, but, non-fulfilment the bilateral brain stimulation. Differences…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Poster, Randomized Controlled Trial, RCT

Bilateral brain stimulations in trauma therapy: A randomized clinical trial

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Poster, Randomized Controlled Trial, RCT

Bilateral eye movements and EEG coherence during positive memories: Implications for PTSD and EMDR

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of bilateral eye movements in the processing of long-term emotional memories, especially as it pertains to the treatment method for PTSD known as EMDR. EMDR utilizes methods similar to cognitive…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, EEG, Eye Movements, Positive Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Bilateral eye movements impair the encoding and enhance the retrieval of episodic memories

Engaging in bilateral saccadic eye movements (EMs) immediately prior to retrieval has been shown to enhance the retrieval of episodic, but not semantic, memories (Christman, Garvey, Propper, & Phaneuf, 2003; Christman, Propper, & Dion, 2004).…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Eye Movements

Bilateral eye movements increase Stroop interference: A role of interhemispheric interaction

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Eye Movements, Interhemispheric Interaction, Stroop Interference

Bilateral eye movements lead to a neutralization of affective state

Engaging in bilateral eye movements (EM) leads to increases in Stroop interference, improvements in episodic memory, and decreases in false memories in a converging semantic associates paradigm. These results are interpreted as reflecting EM-induced…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Eye Movements

Bilateral eye movements reduce cortical activation asymmetries

Alternating left-right eye movements (EMs) have been shown to enhance episodic memory recall (Christman & Garvey, 2000). In turn, enhanced recall of episodic, or autobiographical, memories has been linked to increased interhemispheric interaction…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Eye Movements

Bilateral saccadic eye movements and tactile stimulation, but not auditory stimulation, enhance memory retrieval

Recent research has shown superior memory retrieval when participants make a series of horizontal saccadic eye movements between the memory encoding phase and the retrieval phase compared to participants who do not move their eyes or move their eyes…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Memory Retrieval, Saccades, Saccadic Eye Movements, Tactile Stimulation

Bilateral stimulation in EMDR: A replicated single-subject component analysis

This study attempted to determine whether the eye movement component of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) was necessary to account for positive treatment effects in subjects with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Empirical Study, Quantitative Study, Single-Subject Componnent Analysis

Bilateral stimulation while black: How EMDR transformed the way I processed my childhood trauma

“When people are moving thru the EMDR process, clients begin to report the in-between-session triumph,” explains Brennan. “People with post-traumatic symptoms may notice that nightmares, flashbacks related to a trauma begin to recede or completely go…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Childhood Trauma

Bilaterale visuelle stimulation beim eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Experimentelle Überprüfung der effekte dreier zielreizgeschwindigkeiten auf kortikale parameter. Ein beitrag zur psychotherapeutischen grundlagenforschungBilateral visual stimulation in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Experimental verification of the effects of three target stimulus velocities on cortical parameters. A contribution to basic psychotherapeutic research

Die vorliegende Studie unternimmt den Versuch, einen Beitrag zur Erforschung der Wirkfaktoren des EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) zu leisten. EMDR ist eine gut untersuchte und wirksame Methode zur Behandlung der Posttraumatischen…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Cortical Parameters, Stimulus Velocities

Brief EMDR protocol versus bilateral stimulation in the treatment of spider phobia

EMDR, that includes bilateral stimulation, causes the desensitization and reprocessing of traumatic memories, thus reducing anxiety, distress, fear, and other symptoms related with several anxiety disorders. Previous results show it is effective in…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Brief EMDR Protocol, Phobias, Spider Phobia

Can working memory account For EMDR efficacy in PTSD?

Although eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) has been shown to be effective in the treatment of PTSD for years, it remains highly controversial due to the lack of understanding of its mechanisms of action. We examined whether the…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Dual Taxation, Eye Movements, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Working Memory

Cohérence électroencéphalographique, vivacité des souvenirs et effets de valence émotionnelle des mouvements oculaires bilatéraux pendant le rappel de souvenirs désagréables et l'association libre subséquente: Implications pour l'EMDRElectroencephalography coherence, memory vividness, and emotional valence effects of bilateral eye movements during unpleasant memory recall and subsequent free association: Implications for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Cette étude a examiné les effets de la stimulation bilatérale pendant le rappel de souvenirs désagréables suivi d'association libre, de manière similaire à la phase 4 de la psychothérapie EMDR. Quarante-six sujets sains féminins ont été affectés de…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Coherence, EEG, Electroencephalography, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury

DeTUR, an urge reduction protocol for addictions and dysfunctional behaviors

The Desensitization of Triggers and Urge Reprocessing (DeTUR) model and the theories involved are based on experience from personal client observation and anecdotal reports received from other therapists using this same protocol. It is an eclectic…

Tags: Addiction, Behavior Problems, Behavior Therapy, Bilateral Stimulation, Compulsion, Craving, Desensitization of Triggers, DeTur, Dysfunctional Behaviors, Information Processing, Psychotherapeutic Technique, Urge Reduction Protocol

Does bilateral stimulation make us dream?

The presented research lies within a wide dynamic aroused by the EMDR therapy which gives to see to researchers of several disciplines fundamental elements in the heart of the mental care process. As clinician psychologist, the interest of the author…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS

Effect of eye different modalities of bilateral stimulation in RDI (resource development and installation) procedure

RDI (Resource Development and Installation) is used in Phase II (Preparation phase) of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy standard protocol for stabilization, affect regulation, and coping skills. Three different resources…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Poster, RDI, Resource Installation and Development

Effects of bilateral eye movements on the retrieval of item, associative, and contextual information

Two experiments are reported that investigate the effects of saccadic bilateral eye movements on the retrieval of item, associative, and contextual information. Experiment 1 compared the effects of bilateral versus vertical versus no eye movements on…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Eye Movements

Effektivität von EMDR bei psychisch traumatisierten kindern und jugendlichen Effectiveness of EMDR with psychologically traumatized children and adolescents

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensibilisierung und Wiederaufbereitung) hat sich als ein unabhängiger, effektiver und empirisch validierten Ansatz für die Behandlung von chronischen posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung (PTSD) bei Erwachsenen. Diese Arbeit gibt…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Care, Children and Adolescents, Effectiveness, Emotional Trauma, Empirical Study, Empirically Supported Treatment, Illness, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychologically Traumatized Children, PTSD, Quantitative Study, Treatment

Electroencephalography coherence, memory vividness, and emotional valence effects of bilateral eye movements during unpleasant memory recall and subsequent free association: Implications for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

This study examined the effects of bilateral stimulation during unpleasant memory recall followed by free association, similar to Phase 4 of EMDR therapy. Forty-six female nonpatients were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: bilateral eye…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Coherence, EEG, Electroencephalography, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PSTD, TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury

EMDR en el tratamiento de los traumas y trastornos de apegoEMDR in the treatment of trauma and attachment disorders

El EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) es un enfoque psicoterapéutico que consta de ocho fases, que tiene un conjunto de procedimientos específicos centrados en el procesamiento asociativo espontáneo de los recuerdos traumáticos, con…

Tags: Adaptive Information Processing, AIP, Attachment Disorder, Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Trauma

EMDR for OCD

Building upon a previous workshop (Marr 2011) looking at the use of EMDR in the treatment of OCD. This presentation will examine an outline form of an EMDR Protocol for OCD based around Mental Video Playback and BLS (Marr 2012).

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Mental Video Playback, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR ohne therapeuten? Konzeption und doppelblind-randomisierte kontrollierte evaluation eines EMDR-stressbewältigungsprogramms (EMDR-SBP)EMDR without a therapist? Design and double-blind randomized controlled evaluation of an EMDR stress management program (EMDR-SBP)

EMDR ohne Therapeuten? - Konzeption und doppelblind-randomisierte kontrollierte Evaluation eines EMDR -Stressbewältigungsprogramms (EMDR -SBP ) Georg Schamber, Eva Meinicke & Thomas Schäfer Zusammenfassung: Theoretischer Hintergrund: Die…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Dual Task, Health Promotion

EMDR terapija posttraumatskog stresnog poremećaja u kontekstu socijalne skrbiEMDR therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in the context of social care

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) terapija predstavlja modernu vrstu terapije koju je osmislila Francine Shapiro. EMDR se temelji na bilateralnim pokretima, te se putem njih pokreće fiziološko stanje u korisniku u kojem je olakšana…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapy, PTSD, Social Care, Trauma

EMDR treatment for trauma

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is one of the two most empirically supported treatments for adult populations with noncombat, single-episode posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with the other being exposure therapy. This entry…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Combat-Related PSTD, Complex Trauma, Dual Attention Stimulation, Exposure Therapy, Posttraumatic Growth, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

EMDR: Tones inferior to eye movements in the EMDR treatment of PTSD

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an effective treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). During EMDR, patients make eye movements (EMs) while recalling traumatic memories, but recently therapists have replaced EMs by…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, EMs, Eye Movements, Tones

Emotional and intellectual effects on bilateral tapping while looking at a fixed direction

In Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, bilateral stimulation, such as eye movement and taps, can facilitate the brain to process on the material. Some therapists believe the effectiveness of EMDR could be enhanced if asking…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Fixed Direction, Tapping

Escenas detrás de las alas del abrazo de la mariposa Behind the scenes of the butterfly hug

Este escrito es un compromiso y la promesa de honrar con amor reverencial historias entrelazadas a la mía. En un respetuoso homenaje a la suma de todos esos corazones que han privilegiado mi misión; siempre al servicio de lo que Es Más Grande.This…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Butterfly Hug

Exploring the intersections between dance/movement therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: A literature review

Dance/movement therapy (DMT) and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) are body-based approaches that facilitate the integration of the emotional, cognitive, and physical aspects of an individual. This literature review explores the…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Capstone, Dance/Movement Therapy, Resourcing, Therapeutic Relationship

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Stimolazione bilaterale e integrazione psicoterapeutica Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Bilateral stimulation and integration of psychotherapy

Non disponibile astratto. No abstract available.

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Integration Psychotherapy

Eye movement intervention facilitates concurrent perception and memory processing

A widely used psychotherapeutic treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) involves performing bilateral eye movement (EM) during trauma memory retrieval. However, how this treatment—described as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, MVPA Decoding, Visually Evoked Potentials, Working Memory Taxation

Eye to eye? Bilateral stimulation in cross-cultural context

Participants will be able to: 1) identify cross-cultural healing practices that incoporate bilateral stimilation; 2) describe relevant research studies; and 3) identify guildeines for the development of culturally sensitive applications of EMDR.

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Cultural Healing Practice

Facilitating access to emotions: Neural signature of EMDR stimulation

Background: Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method in psychotherapy effective in treating symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. The client attends to alternating bilateral visual, auditory or sensory stimulation while…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Neurological Basis

Foundations of the positive affect tolerance protocol: The central role of interpersonal positive affect in attachment and self-regulation

Research has highlighted the negative effects of early neglect and abuse on the development of emotional self-regulation and attachment. Attention has focused more on negative affect states related to past adverse and traumatic experiences than on…

Tags: Affect Regulation, Attachment, Bilateral Stimulation, BLS

Fundamental study on auditory bilateral stimulation

Many stroke patients show depressive symptoms after a stroke, and the patients of about one third are known to suffer from depression after stroke. Additionally it has been pointed out that a few people have PTSD symptoms after a stroke. Depressive…

Tags: Auditory Bilateral Stimulation, Bilateral Stimulation, BLS

Hoe EMDR werkt: Bevindingen uit het lab How EMDR works: Findings from the lab

• Wat is het raadsel achter de oogbewegingen en piepjes• Hoe werkt EMDR wel en niet? • Is vervanging van oogbewegingen door piepjes verstandig? • What is the mystery behind the eye movements and beeps • How EMDR works and does not? • Is replacing…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Eye Movements, Tones

How does eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy work? A systematic review on suggested mechanisms of action

Background: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing [EMDR] is an innovative, evidence-based and effective psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD]. As with other psychotherapies, the effectiveness of EMDR contrasts with a limited…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Eye Movements, Mechanism of Action, Systemic Review

How therapy involving tapping at a piano wiped out the trauma of Kate's 64-hour labour

I'm perched on a piano stool at an oversized keyboard in the South Kensington office of Dr Robert Lefever, a GP-turned-counsellor. My eyes trail my left finger, which is rhythmically playing the F sharp key, before swapping to my right finger playing…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Piano Keys

L'integrazione delle stimolazioni bilaterali alternate nel processo terapeutico: Alcune riflessioni The integration of alternating bilateral stimulation in the therapeutic process: Some reflections

Non disponibile astratto. No abstract available.

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS

La desensibilización y el reprocesamiento por medio de movimientos oculares EMDR en el tratamiento del trauma emocional Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing EMDR for the treatment of emotional trauma

Eye Movement desensibilización y reprocesamiento [EMDR] fue desarrollado originalmente para el tratamiento de recuerdos traumáticos. Este procedimiento incluye la exposición imaginación, el reprocesamiento cognitivo y estimulación bilateral…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Reprocessing, Emotional Trauma, Eye Movements, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Trauma, Traumatic Memories

Les techniques d’oscillation : construire une attention doubleBilateral stimulation techniques: Building dual attention

Les techniques d’oscillation constituent une méthode de confrontation douce en psychotraumatologie. Elles permettent de rester dans un lien étroit avec les ressources de la personne, tout en touchant graduellement un réseau neuronal chargé avec du…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation

Les techniques d’oscillation: Construire une attention double Bilateral stimulation techniques: Building dual attention

Les techniques d’oscillation permettent une confrontation « douce » aux événements traumatiques et perturbants. À l’inverse du protocole standard en EMDR où la phase 3 consiste à activer tous les éléments du réseau neuronal dysfonctionnel (image,…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation

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