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'Dissociative processes' and EMDR - Staying connected

Dissociative processes, common in a wide variety of psychological disorders (e.g., PTSD, Anxiety Disorders, Personality Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, etc.) can interfere with effective EMDR treatment. The information processing system gets…

Tags: Dissociation, Dissociative Disorder

"Blank" ...Using EMDR with children who dissociate

Dissociation is a common response for children who experience abuse, severe neglect, or extreme disorganized attachment. EMDR can help (1) increase a child´s sense of safety and stability, (2) decrease disconnection between aspects of self, and (3)…

Tags: Children, Disorganized Attachment, Dissociation, Severe Neglect, Therapist Training

"Help! What do I do now?" Practical EMDR for complex kids

Using filmed EMDR session segments of a young child and an adolescent, analysis of the manifest challenges and presentations of complex trauma will be demonstrated. Creative use of EMDR to accommodate the developmental, personality and situational…

Tags: Children, Complex PTSD, Dissociation

“Smoke and mirrors” procedures for managing dissociative impediments during EMDR processing phases

When clinicians understand how dissociation works and how to manage it, the considerable benefits of EMDR therapy can be provided to clients with complex posttraumatic disorders. This presentation is designed to help clinicians manage dissociative…

Tags: Dissociation, Plenary

A tool for working with dissociative clients

For those clients who are suffering from Complex PTSD, especially those whose condition originates in childhood abuse or neglect, dissociation is likely to be part of the presenting clinical picture. To the extent that dissociation is occurring, the…

Tags: Dissociation

ACT-AS-IF and ARCHITECTS approach to utilizing ego state therapy, somatic psychotherapy and EMDR with highly dissociative clients

This article discusses ACT-AS-IF and ARCHITECTS approach to utilizing ego state therapy, somatic psychotherapy and EMDR with highly dissociative clients.

Tags: Act-As-If, Architects, Dissociation, Ego State Therapy, Somatic Psychotherapy

Adapting EMDR techniques in the treatment of dysregulated or dissociative patients

Since its inception, EMDR [Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing] has been understood by both clinicians and patients as a powerful vehicle for processing traumatic experience but one to be undertaken only when the patient has achieved some…

Tags: Dissociation, Dysregulation

Addressing dissociation and its negative impact on the physical health of the adult sexual abuse survivor: An integrated EMDR and ego state treatment approach

Tags: Dissociation, Ego State Therapy, Sexual Abuse, Survivor

Advanced clinical strategies for clients with complex PTSD and dissociation

Clients with complex PTSD and dissociation present many challenges. The neurosciences have helped us to begin to understand and deal with them through a recent clarification of mirror neurons and associated neural structures in both the clinician and…

Tags: C-PTSD, Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Complex PTSD, Dissociation

Advanced techniques in the use of EMDR to treat complex trauma

This workshop introduces two conceptual frameworks. The optimal zone of arousal and node isolation theory and techniques. The first is for assessing readiness for, and identifying obstacles to safe phase four processing. The second describes a…

Tags: Complex Trauma, Dissociation

Advanced treatment of dissociation, personality disorders, couple and disaster survivors

Tags: Couples, Disaster, Dissociation, Personality Disorder

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

Apego y disociacion, El papel de los opioides endógenos Attachment and dissociation: The role of endogenous opioids

Endogenous opiates play a major role in attachment and they are also involved in dissociative processes and somatoform dissociation. The presentation discusses the adjunctive use of opoid antagonists both during stabilization and trauma processing…

Tags: Attachment, Dissociation, Endogenous Opioid

Application de la psychothérapie EMDR aux conduites autodélétèresApplication of EMDR therapy to self-harming behaviors

Les sévices auto-infligés constituent une stratégie de coping actionnée par le trauma qui peut se comprendre du point de vue du modèle du Traitement adaptatif de l'information (TAI) et se prendre en charge par la psychothérapie EMDR…

Tags: Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Self-Harming Behavior

Application of EMDR therapy to self-harming behaviors

Self-harm is frequently a trauma-driven coping strategy that can be understood from the perspective of the adaptive information processing (AIP) model and treated with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy (Shapiro, 1995,…

Tags: Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Self-Harming Behavior

Approach of trauma attachment and dissociation in eating disorders with EMDR therapy

Clinicians often struggle with understanding the functional dynamics of Eating Disorders (ED). To successfully treat ED with EMDR, clinicians must be able to identify two crucial aspects of the core issues underlying these disorders: defenses and…

Tags: Dissociation, Eating Disorders, Trauma Attachment

Assessing and diagnosing dissociation in children: Beginning the recovery

Tags: Children, Dissociation

Assessing dissociation in the visually impaired

This case discussion focuses on a traumatically blinded man. Treatment involved stabilisation using ego-state work with bilateral stimulation, followed by trauma processing work using EMDR. The aim of this paper is to assess his response to this…

Tags: Dissociation, Poster, Visual Impairments

Assessing dissociation in the visually impaired

This case discussion focuses on a traumatically blinded man. Treatment involved stabilisation using ego-state work with bilateral stimulation, followed by trauma precessing using EMDR. The aim of this paper is to assess his response to this approach,…

Tags: Dissociation, Visually Impaired

Attachment and dissociation: The role of endogenous opoids

Endogenous opiates play a major role in attachment and they are also involved in dissociative processes and somatoform dissociation. The presentation discusses the adjunctive use of opoid antagonists both during stabilization and trauma processing…

Tags: Attachment, Dissociation, Endogenous Opioid

Attachment and dissociative intervention with children and teen

Tags: Attachment, Children and Adolescents, Dissociation

Becoming known: A relational model utilizing gestalt and ego state-assisted EMDR in treating eating disorders

Eating disorders (EDs) require a multidisciplinary approach, rather than a hammer-and-nail perspective. Based upon recent research and more than a decade of clinical experience, this article highlights the need to include a trauma-informed and…

Tags: Body Image Distortion, Dissociation, Eating Disorders, Gestalt Therapy, Trauma

Bereavement, EMDR & structural dissociation of the personality theory

The Poster Presentation will address the therapeutic issues of a complex bereavement case with traumatized history in a bicultural society. EMDR as an integrative psychotherapeutic approach and theory like the “Structural Dissociation of the…

Tags: Dissociation, Personality Theory, Poster

Carrera de obstáculos: EMDR y disociación en población infantilObstacle course: EMDR and dissociation in children

Independientemente de los modelos teóricos explicativos, en la experiencia de nuestros pacientes la disociación cumple una función protectora. Ésta, sin embargo, se vuelve desadaptativa cuando la exposición al peligro terminó. El reprocesamiento de…

Tags: Children, Dissociation

Carrera de obstáculos: EMDR y disociación en población infantilObstacle course: EMDR and dissociation in children

Independientemente de los modelos teóricos explicativos, en la experiencia de nuestros pacientes la disociación cumple una función protectora. Ésta, sin embargo, se vuelve desadaptativa cuando la exposición al peligro terminó. El reprocesamiento de…

Tags: Children, Complex Trauma, Dissociation

Case conceptualization: Decision points in EMDR with children for attachment, dissociation, and concurrent diagnosis including OCD, ADHD, and PTSD

This presentation will focus on illustrating decision points in EMDR in case conceptualization with children involving complex diagnoses. Videotapes will include sessions with young children diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),…

Tags: ADHD, Attachment Disorder, Case Conceptualization, Children, Dissociation, Inverse Protocol, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Como puede la combinacion entre el EMDR y la imaginacion tartar casos con sept complejo, problemas de apego y disociacion? How can EMDR and imagination combined, treat cases with complex PTSD, attachment and dissociative symptoms?

ABSTRACT: La integración del EMDR con el uso de la imaginación (See Far CBT, Lahad) como un abordaje para el tratamiento de SEPT Complejo. El uso de la imaginación con cartas terapéuticas dentro de la Realidad Fantástica es una estrategia poderosa…

Tags: Attachment, Dissociation, Poster

Compléter la Gestalt par l’EMDRComplete the Gestalt by the EMDR

Le trauma peut être regardé comme un figement du système nerveux face à une menace. Lorsquece trauma se transforme en traumatisme, l’EMDR apporte, par un système de stimulations bilatéralesdu cerveau, un complément thérapeutique. L’auteur…

Tags: Dissociation, Gestalt Therapy, PTSD, Trauma

Complex PTSD and EMDR: Treating the dissociative elements

This workshop will focus on structural dissociation and ego states. Specific emphasis will be placed on the recognition and management of dissociation when it interferes with various phases of EMDR, particularly during Desensitization. Dr. Gelinas…

Tags: Complex PTSD, Dissociation, Ego States

Complex trauma, attachment and dissociation: Using EMDR Therapy with children with pervasive emotion dysregulation

This presentation will focus on practical and creative strategies for working with children with severe dysregulation of the affective system. These include children exhibiting insecure patterns of attachment, complex PTSD and dissociative symptoms.…

Tags: Attachment, Children, Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Pervasive Emotion Dysregulation

Complex trauma: EMDR therapy for adults with dissociative tendencies – Part 1

Tags: Adult, Complex Trauma, Dissociation

Complex trauma: EMDR therapy for adults with dissociative tendencies – Part 2

Tags: Adult, Complex Trauma, Dissociation

Considerations for integrating EMDR into the treatment of dissociation and dissociative disorders

It is known that EMDR therapy needs to be done carefully while working with dissociation and dissociative disorders. Over the years, many have documented the effective use of EMDR with these conditions. This workshop would attempt to build the bridge…

Tags: Dissociation

Dancing with dissociation: Working with dysfunctionally stored elements in EMDR therapy

Dissociative processes are at the heart of the traumatic sequelae, a timeless battle between knowing and not knowing, feeling and not feeling, remembering and not remembering. Representing the polar opposite of an integration, the hallmark EMDR…

Tags: Dissociation

De zes testen, een stabilisatie methode voor chronisch getraumatiseerde en dissociatieve kinderen The six tests, a stabilization method for chronically traumatized children and dissociative

De zes testen, een stabilisatie methode voor chronisch getraumatiseerde en dissociatieve kinderen. De stabilisatie en behandeling van deze kinderen kan gecompliceerd zijn. Vanzelfsprekend is het creëren van een veilige omgeving en een hechtingsfiguur…

Tags: Children, Dissociation, Six Tests, Stabilization

Deepening EMDR treatment effects in the clinical treatment of dissociative disorders: Integrating EMDR techniques, ego-state therapy, and developmental blueprinting

Tags: Dissociation, Ego State Therapy

Deepening the EMDR treatment effects in the treatment of dissociative disorders: Integrating EMDR and ego state techniques

Tags: Dissociation, Ego State Therapy

Demystifying and humanizing dissociation in EMDR therapy practice

A great deal of fear still abounds about working with clients who dissociate. To address this fear, EMDR therapists are challenged to move beyond the technicalities of theoretical models like structural dissociation and to develop a more…

Tags: Dissociation

Dissociation et dimension victimaire chez un pédophile: La thérapie EMDR peut-elle aider?

Ce travail vise a` amener des e´ le´ments de re´ flexion sur ce qu’il est possible de faire d’un point de vue the´ rapeutique avec des patients auteurs d’infractions a` caracte` re sexuel. Nous discuterons dans un premier temps des diffe´ rentes…

Tags: Compulsory Care, Dissociation, Pedophiles, Pedophilia, Position Paper, Psychotherapy, Sexual Offender

Dissociation et mémoire traumatiqueDissociation and traumatic memory

Le DSM-V (APA, 2013) définit la dissociation comme « une rupture et/ou une discontinuité dans l’intégration normale de la conscience, de la mémoire, de l’identité, de l’émotion, de la perception, de la représentation corporelle, du contrôle moteur et…

Tags: Dissociation, Traumatic Memory

Dissociation in ego-state therapy and EMDR models

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an effective psychotherapy for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). For example, the therapist puts a finger in front of the client's eyes and slowly moves it to the left or right with a…

Tags: Dissociation, Ego State

Dissociation in nicotine addiction: A case study

Tags: Case Study, Dissociation, Nicotine Addiction

Dissociation in the dental chair: Implications for the EMDR treatment of health issues

EMDR treatment is effective in dealing with many health problems (exacerbated by dissociation)encountered by many complex trauma clients. The negative sequelae of abuse on the physical and mental health of these clients includes flashbacks and…

Tags: Dissociation, Health Issues

Dissociation made simple: Changing the conversation for EMDR therapists

Dr. Jamie Marich is one of the few members of the EMDR Therapy training community to be fully out and proud about her experience of having a clinically significant dissociative disorder and active dissociative system. A passionate advocate seeking to…

Tags: Dissociation, Keynote

Dissociation made simple: Changing the conversation for EMDR therapists

In this keynote address, Marich offers you a simple breakdown of what it really means to dissociate, shares on how common teaching in the EMDR community are creating barriers to good care, and offers you a new paradigm for helping you navigate your…

Tags: Dissociation, Keynote

Dissociation of the personality and EMDR therapy in complex trauma-related disorders: Applications in the stabilization phase

As proposed in a previous article in this journal, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) clinicians treating clients with complex trauma-related disorders may benefit from knowing and applying the theory of structural dissociation of…

Tags: Dissociation, Dissociative Disorder, Phase-Oriented Treatment, Stabilization, Structural Dissociation of the Personality

Dissociation of the personality in complex trauma-related disorders and EMDR: Theoretical considerations

As eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) has been increasingly applied in complex trauma-related disorders, including complex dissociative disorders, and trauma-related borderline personality disorder, EMDR practice may benefit from…

Tags: Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Dissociation of the Personality, Dissociative Disorder, Integration, Phase-Oriented Treatment, Structural Dissociation

Dissociation of the personality: The key to understanding chronic traumatisation and a guide to EMDR treatment

There is currently consensus that the EMDR standard protocol needs to be modified for chronically traumatized clients, such as clients with complex dissociative disorders, as it may destabilize them. Therefore, therapists need to have a good…

Tags: Dissociation

Dissociation predicts treatment response in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) for post-traumatic stress disorder

Using clinical data at a specialized trauma clinic, this study investigated pre-treatment clinical factors predicting response to eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) among adult patients diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder…

Tags: Comorbidity, Dissociation, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Trauma Response

Dissociation processes and EMDR: Staying connected

Participants will: 1) learn a model, based on recent developments in neuroscience and the neurobiology of dissociation, that guides therapeutic interventions in general and EMDR treatment in particular; 2) apply effective treatment planning, target…

Tags: Dissociation

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