Eye movement desensitization (EMD) and a control procedure, image confrontation (IC) were compared in a group of 58 phobics, 31 of them arachnophobes. [There were 7 cases of "traumatic phobia" and 1 of "classical PTSD."] Subjects confronted…
In my experience of using EMDR with clients from Latin American backgrounds, a number of old traumatic experiences emerge earlier in the process of therapy than conventional psychotherapeutic treatment. These memories were mainly related to life…
Type I traumata in children are often quick and rewarding therapies. But sometimes even in uncomplicated cases there is only limited progress in therapy. Exemplary with the case vignette of a three year old boy, bitten by a dog and treated with EMDR,…
