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Effects of "eye movement desensitization" on emotional processing in normal subjects

A number of single case reports have made impressive claims for the efficacy of "eye movement desensitization" (EMD) in the treatment of traumatic memories. Many of these case reports claim that EMD reduces the unpleasant feelings associated with…

Tags: Aversive Stimulation, EMD, Emotional Responding During Retrieval of Aversive Information, Emotional Response, Eye Movements, Treatment

Eye-movements and visual imagery: A working memory approach to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder

It has been claimed that the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be ameliorated by eye-movement desensitization-reprocessing therapy (EMD-R), a procedure that involves the individual making saccadic eye-movements while imagining the…

Tags: Australia, Empirical Study, Experimental Stressor, Eye Movements, Pictorial Stimuli, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Trauma resolution using eye movement desensitization and reprocessing with an incestuous sex offender: An instrumental case study

This case describes the use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) to reduce reactivity to childhood trauma in an incestuous sex offender. It explores the relationship between desensitization and reprocessing of traumatic memory and…

Tags: Childhood Trauma, Clinical Case Study, Emotional Trauma, Eye Movements, Incest, Sex Offender, Sex Offense, Trauma Resolution, Treatment

EMDR: What's the evidence?

The evidence so far that eye movements are of therapeutic value is, say Stephen Joseph and P Alex Linley, not convincing; the effectiveness of EMDR can probably be attributed to imaginal exposure.

Tags: Eye Movements, Mechanism of Action

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: A new method in the treatment of performance anxiety for singers

The purpose of this thesis is to provide information and exposure for EMDR therapy as it relates to performance anxiety in singers and other musicians. Since EMDR therapy is a relatively new approach to relieving issues of anxiety, this thesis…

Tags: Bilateral Brain Stimulation, Brain Stimulation, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Trauma, Eye Movements, Mental Health, Musician, Performance Anxiety, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Singers, Stress, Syndrome, Trauma

The feeling-state theory of compulsions and cravings and decreasing compulsions and cravings using an eye movement protocol

Compulsions and cravings such as gambling and sex compulsions have been the subject of behavioral and psychodynamic treatment. This study formulates a new theory of compulsions and cravings, called the Feeling-State Theory of Compulsions, and…

Tags: Compulsion, Craving, Empirical Study, Eye Movements, Pathological Gambling

A working memory analysis of the dual attention component of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

This dissertation applied the concepts and predictions of working memory theory to a psychotherapeutic approach, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). The overview of EMDR included a description of the treatment, theoretical model,…

Tags: Attention, Dual Attention Component, Empirical Study, Eye Movements, Short-Term Memory, Working Memory

The use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in treating a public speaking anxiety/phobia for individuals of high, moderate, and low absorption ability

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a relatively new and seemingly effective but controversial therapeutic treatment used primarily for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and related anxiety disorders such as phobias. In this…

Tags: Anxiety, Eye Movements, Phobias, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Public Speaking, Public Speaking Anxiety

Efficacy of the eye movement desensitization procedure as compared to accelerated massed desensitization in the treatment of test anxiety

The Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) procedure had been widely promoted as an effective anxiety reducing treatment, yet the methodology of many studies has not been adequate to clearly investigate the procedure (Lohr, Kleinknecht,…

Tags: Accelerated Mass Desensitization, College Students, Eye Movements, Psychotherapeutic Technique, Test Anxiety

The role of eye movements and other bilateral stimulation in EMDR

After a decade of treatment outcome research on EMDR, its effectivensss in the treatment of PTSD is no longer in question. However, the role of eye movements and bilateral stimulation, in general, remain controversial. Critics of EMDR hold that EMDR…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Eye Movements, Symposium

Do eye movements hinder the avoidance process leading to greater accessibility of traumatic memories?

Participants will: 1) learn Wegner's ironic memory process model; 2) learn how the ironic memory process model is related to the DSM-IV symptoms of PTSD; 3) learn that eye movements at different speeds interfere with and interact with the speech…

Tags: Eye Movements, Ironic Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Symposium, Wegner

Art therapy meets EMDR: Processing the paper-based image with eye movement

This paper examines the role of the visual image in psychotherapy, and explores connections between how art therapists use physical images, and how EMDR practitioners use mental images in assisting emotional growth and healing. It outlines a clinical…

Tags: Art Therapy, Eye Movements, Imagery, Psychotherapy, Visual perception

Treating combat-related stress disorders: A multiple case study utilizing eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) with battlefield casualties from the Iraqi war

Casualties from the Iraqi War were evacuated to a field hospital in Rota, Spain, and were screened for combat-related stress conditions. Four combat veterans requested immediate relief of their posttraumatic symptoms prior to returning to the United…

Tags: Acute Stress Disorder, ASD, Battlefield Casualty, Combat Experience, Combat Related Stress Disorder, Empirical Study, Eye Movements, Follow-up Study, Hospital, Iraqi War, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Quantitative Study, War

What about eye movements in EMDR?

Participants will learn: 1) the research findings with respect to EMDR dismantling stuides; 2) the research findings with respect to the effects of eye movements on cognitive and emotional processes; 3) the components of the model that proposes that…

Tags: Distractor to the Avoidance Process Model, Eye Movements, Research

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) Praktische toepassing en theoretische overwegingen Eye movement resensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Practical applications and theoretical considerations

Oogbeweging desensibilisatie and Reprocessing (EMDR) werd geïntroduceerd door Shapiro als een nieuwe, krachtige behandeling van post-traumatische stress en aanverwante aandoeningen. Een korte schets van de EMDR-techniek is gepresenteerd en…

Tags: Case Study, Eye Movements, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Eye-movement-desensitization heeft geen effect op emotionele reactiviteit van 'normale' proefpersonen Eye movement desensitization has no effect on the emotional reactivity of normal test subjects

Verschillende single-case studies hebben gesuggereerd dat posttraumatische stress-symptomen en andere angst-gerelateerde problemen kunnen succesvol worden behandeld met een sessie van de oogbeweging desensibilisatie (EMD). Twee experimenten werden…

Tags: Aversive Stimulation, EMD, Emotional Response, Eye Movements, Systematic Desensitization

Some effects of EMDR on previously abused child molesters: Theoretical reviews and preliminary findings

Ten child molesters with reported histories of childhood sexual abuse underwent eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) trauma treatment as an adjunct to standard cognitive-behavioural therapy-relapse prevention (CBT-RP) group treatment.…

Tags: Child Molester, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Emotional Trauma, Empirical Study, Eye Movements, Pedophilia, Phallometry, Quantitative Study, Sex Offender, Sexual Abuse, Trauma, Treatment

Bilateral eye movements enhance the retrieval of episodic memories

Two experiments examining effects of eye movements on episodic memory retrieval are reported. Thirty seconds of horizontal saccadic eye movements (but not smooth pursuit or vertical eye movements) preceding testing resulted in selective enhancement…

Tags: Episodic Memory Retrieval, Eye Movements, Saccadic Eye Movements

When words fail

Some advocated a controversial form of therapy called eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), which involves asking the patient to focus on the therapist's moving finger as they recall the unpleasant memories. The condition became…

Tags: Disaster, Eye Movements, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Research, Study, Therapy

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Current debates and comparative efficacy

For over a decade, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) has been used to treat symptoms of PTSD. While EMDR advocates have been enthusiastic of this treatment, EMDR critics have raised several important concerns. This article examines…

Tags: Debate, Eye Movements, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Obravnava disfunkcionalno shranjenih izkušenj z metodo desenzitizacije in ponovne predelave z očesnim gibanjem - EMDR Treatment of dysfunctionally stored experiences with the method eye movement desensitization and reprocessing - EMDR

V tem prispevku nova terapevtska metoda, imenovana Eye Movement desenzibilizacijo in Reprocessing (EMDR) je opisan. Metoda je bila ustanovljena predvsem za zdravljenje posttraumatic stresne motnje, vendar pa tudi nekaj poročil o njegovi učinkovitosti…

Tags: Accelerated Information Processing, Cognitive Processes, Eye Movements, Information Processing, Memory, Memory Network, Mental Disorders, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Episodic versus semantic memory: Eye movements and cortical activation

Tags: Cortical Activation, Epidosic Memory, Eye Movements, Poster, Semantic Memory

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Rebuilding assumptive worlds

Describes the 8 phases of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and presents a case that illustrates the utilization of EMDR in the treatment of a traumatic event.

Tags: Clinical Case Study, Emotional Trauma, Empirical Study, Eye Movements

A therapeutic technique alternative

In recent year there have been varied ways of directing eye movement during EMDR intervention. This is a suggestion about an alternative technique.

Tags: Eye Movements

Eye movement “glitches” and slower passes: The importance of observing how the eyes move during EMDR

This is a note on the relationship between the resolution, in EMDR, of a problem or target issue and the degree of freedom, or smoothness, of eye movements.

Tags: Eye Movements

A note on eye movements and relaxation

Eye movements and certain visual mechanisms appear to be related to states of relaxation and levels of wakefulness. The hatha yoga tradition in its historical and contemporary forms uses certain eye 'exercises' or postures to induce relaxation and…

Tags: Eye Movements, Relaxation

Recent research evaluating the role of eye movements in EMDR

Findings of component studies are summarized, with a review of studies which reported that EMs reduced memory vividness and emotiveness. The results of three recent studies are presented. 1) A study evaluated the effects of EMs on the components of…

Tags: Eye Movements, Research

What does the research say about the effects of eye movements in EMDR?

Tags: Eye Movements, Research

A brief note: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is not hypnosis

Argues that eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and hypnosis are qualitatively different states of neurophysiological functioning. An experiment is reported in which the effects of EMDR on brain functioning of 3 Ss are examined. EEGs…

Tags: Electroencephalography, Eye Movements, Hypnotherapy, Letter, Neurophysiology, Treatment

Variations in direction of eye movements

In working with a young woman with multiple personality disorder, diagonal eye movements brought about almost immediate abreactions. (In fact, the first time that EMDR was conducted with this client, two heretofore unknown, cult-induced, alters…

Tags: Eye Movements

Eye movement: A method of axis rotation

In using EMDR with these clients, I noticed that they would sometimes get stuck (i.e., not continue to resolution/ SUDs=O) after several sets of lateral, side-to-side eye movements. I sensed that they somehow needed to "access more areas of their…

Tags: Eye Movements

Tidbits

It has been a part of Level I training for several years to teach a signal for clients to use if they want the therapist to stop the eye movements. I have a signal to continue the eye movements at the same time. This is a usual "come on" charade…

Tags: Eye Movements, Signal

What about eye movements? A research update for EMDR practitioners

In 2004, fifteen years after Dr. Shapiro first published on EMDR, the role of eye movements (and other stimulation) in EMDR continues to be a subject of much debate. An overview of what practitioners need to know to understand the research that…

Tags: Eye Movements, Plenary, Research

An evaluation of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)

Review . . . the current methodological and professional issues surrounding Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) description of the EMDR procedure / evaluation of current published research / professional evaluation.

Tags: Evaluation, Eye Movements, Systematic Desensitization, Treatment Effectiveness

Traumatiska minnen kan behandlas effektivt med EMDR Traumatic memories can be effectively treated with EMDR

Eye Movement Desensibilisering och upparbetning (EMDR) är idag en evidensbaserad och internationellt accepterade psykoterapeutisk metod för behandling av traumatiska minnen och PTSD. Jämfört med KBT-metoden har visat sig vara lika effektiva. Det är…

Tags: Cognitive Therapy, Desensitization, Eye Movements, Humans, Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychologic Method, PTSD, Treatment Outcome

Increased interhemispheric interaction leads to decreased false memories for prose: The effects of degree of handedness and of eye movement-induced cortical activation

Two experiments examining the effects of mixed handedness (which is associated with increased interhemispheric interaction) and horizontal saccadic eye movements (which are associated with increased bihemispheric cortical activation) on the…

Tags: Cognitive Processes, Empirical Study, Eye Movements, False Memory, Handedness, Interhemispheric Interaction, Neurobiology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Prose, PTSD, Quantitative Study

The efficacy of EMDR with traumatized children

This study evaluated the effectiveness of up to five 60-minute sessions of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) for children (ages 8-12) who had suffered one or more traumas. Participants (N = 48) were randomly assigned to either an…

Tags: Emotional Trauma, Empirical Study, Eye Movements, Quantitative Study

Efficacy of "eye movement desensitization and reprocessing" in reducing anxiety and unpleasant feelings due to earthquake experience

To investigate the efficacy of "eye movement desensitization and reprocessing" (EMDR) in reducing earthquake anxiety and negative feelings resulting from earthquake experience, 41 persons who underwent the stress of the earthquake in Bam, were…

Tags: Anxiety, Earthquakes, Empirical Study, Eye Movements, Follow-up Study, Natural Disaster, Quantitative Study, Randomized Controlled Trial, RCT, Unpleasant Feelings

EMDR: Ny metode for traumebehandling EMDR: A new method in the treatment of trauma

Beskriver Eye Movement desensitivisering og reprosessering (EMDR) terapi utviklet av F. Shapiro å behandle posttraumatisk stresslidelse (PTSD). Tre casestudier av pasienter som opplevde væpnet ran og plutselig død av en annen person blir anmeldt.…

Tags: Bereavement, Empirical Study, Eye Movements, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Robbery, Survivor, Systematic Desensitization

Effect of bilateral eye movements on frontal interhemispheric gamma EEG coherence: Implications for EMDR therapy

The use of bilateral eye movements (EMs) is an important component of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for PTSD. The neural mechanisms underlying EMDR remain unclear. However, prior behavioral work looking at the effects…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Brain Imaging, College Students, Eye Movements, Neurophysiology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Quantitative Study

眼動減敏訊息再處理法中「眼動」與「正向認知」成分對於懼蟑症之療效眼動減敏訊息再處理法中「眼動」與「正向認知」成分對於懼蟑症之療效 The efficacy of eye movement and positive cognition components of EMDR in the treatment of cockroach phobia

陳致豪眼動減敏訊息再處理法中「眼動」與「正向認知」成分對於懼蟑症之療效眼動減敏訊息再處理法（Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing; EMDR）是Shapiro（1989a, 1989b）所發展的一套治療方法，最早被用來治療創傷後壓力疾患（post traumatic stress disorder;…

Tags: Cockroach Phobia, Eye Movements, Phobias, Positive Cognition, Psychotherapy

How eye movements affect unpleasant memories: Support for a working-memory account

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing can reduce ratings of the vividness and emotionality of unpleasant memories—hence it is commonly used to treat posttraumatic stress disorder. The present experiments compared three accounts of how eye…

Tags: Autobiographical Memory, Eye Movements, Psychotherapy, Working Memory

Effects of eye movement versus therapist instructions on the processing of distressing memories

The effectiveness of components of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) was tested by randomly assigning 48 participants to either an eye movement or an eye stationary condition and to one of two types of therapist instructions…

Tags: Empirical Study, Eye Movements, Follow-up Study, Quantitative Study, Randomized Comparison

A componential approach to hypnotic memory facilitation: Focused meditation, context reinstatement and eye movements

Although hypnosis is now less popular as an interviewing technique in forensic investigations than it used to be, recent evidence suggests that some of the components of hypnotic interviewing might still be useful in the development of brief memory…

Tags: Confidence, Context Reinstatement, Eye Movements, Forensic Hypnosis, Hypnotism, Interviewing, Meditation, Memory, Memory Facilitation, Testing

Stress disorders: Cortical plasticity, eye saccades, and multiple personalities

Origin and Nature of Stress Disorders: The Defense Response occurs as part of the switch from fearful flight (Ego) to cornered, fearless fight (Id) whereby the individual attempts to obtain freedom from restraint through the violence of defensive…

Tags: Cortical Plasticity, Defense Response, Eye Movements, HPA, Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal, Multiple Personality Disorder, Stress Disorder

Are eye movements necessary when treating post traumatic stress with the eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing procedure?

Tags: Eye Movements, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

If eye movements are unnecessary in EMDR, are we left with behavior therapy?

Tags: Behavior Therapy, Eye Movements

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

Empirical assessment of Lanius, et al.s’ “functional MRI of EMDR in peacekeepers,’ a review of the EMDR literature and an annotated bibiliography

This report reviews a research proposal, the major objective of which is to assess the relation between PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and limbic, paralimbic, and prefrontal brain function as assessed with functional MRI (Magnetic Resonance…

Tags: Bibliography, Canada, Desensitizing Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Eye Movements, Medical Research, Mental Disorders, MRI, Order Disorder Transformations, Signs and Symptoms, Stress (Physiology), Traumatic Shock

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

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