There's less agreement on the efficacy of psychoanalysis, despite its longstanding reputation, or some newer controversial treatments like EMDR -- eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, a technique that relies on eye movement exercises to…
Thank you for supporting therapy in your column. I'd like to tell you about a technique I've been using with clients for almost four years. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing helps people heal from traumas and works faster than just…
Richard Saltus quotes an EMDR enthusiast as saying that more than 60,000 people have been trained in the therapy. It is common for EMDR folks to cite the number of people who have attended EMDR workshops, and they do so in order to lend credibility…
Body Institute, practiced meditation, and attended two different support groups. Although these methods certainly had their benefits, after five years I still felt as if I could slingshot into my deepest grief with the slightest trigger. I debated…
But since that day 11 years ago Shapiro has been ferociously studying -- and promoting -- EMDR. When she first began her studies, she was enrolled in a now-defunct, never-accredited school, the Professional School of Psychological Studies in San…
Bessel van der Kolk does not mince words when describing the effectiveness of a controversial therapy that started becoming popular among psychologists a decade ago. "It's the greatest thing since sliced bread," he says about eye movlement…
About 10 years ago, word of a curious new therapy began trickling into psychologists' offices. Proponents claimed that the therapy could relieve anxiety, phobias, and frightening flashbacks related to past hurts - and in a matter of weeks or months…
