One appears to be Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an extensively researched therapeutic technique with scientifically proven powerful effects in relieving traumatic memory. There is brain imaging research that identifies the…
I am a practitioner of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). The writer evidently knows little if anything about EMDR as she claims it is "hypnotic" and leaves clients open to suggestions (of sexual abuse) during the procedure. During…
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is an accepted, validated and approved treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder by the APA and solidly based on rigorous, head-to- head research with various other methods. This research has been…
This psychiatrist tries to cure mental illness with eye wiggles. He says memory of childhood abuse is stored in the hips, elbows and toes. And he wants to bill health insurers for his services, the same as other medical doctors, a concept called…
EMDR was developed by Francine Shapiro, PhD, while she was a graduate student at University of California at Berkeley in 1987. Initially applied to people who had suffered severe traumatic stress -- like rape victims and Vietnam War veterans -- it…
