It's called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and it first entered the field of clinical psychology in the late 1980s. Since its introduction, more than 25,000 mental health professionals have been trained in the procedure. It has…
The commonly-reported difficulty in identifying opportunties to use EMDR reflects the fact that relatively few EMDR-trained clinicians were previously trauma specialists. This workshop will present a comprehensive model of trauma-informed treatment…
Even the word shocks, jars a little. But most of us have some. Who hasn't been in a car accident, a house fire, lost a loved one, been assaulted? Not to mention child abuse, rape, war... These are the adverse life experiences that are supposed to…
They're not sure how it works, but mental-health professionals are raving about an intense but simple psychotherapy technique that may help alleviate Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing promises to help free…
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…
Psychologist David Russell was starting to feel like a dentist who didn't use Novocain. Working with clients who were dealing with trauma meant dredging up memories in psychotherapy sessions -- an often painful process. ``We could effectively work…
Choosing not to reveal their real names but eager to talk, Mike and Kelly are now clients of Trish Starbird, a therapist at Starbird Counseling in Maryville who practices EMDR therapy -- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Narrates how Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) worked to cure a woman of her depression. Background of the patient; EMDR as a means of teaching the brain to reprocess stored information such as traumatic memories; Recalling of…
Reports on the eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) as a psychotherapy method. Therapy for victims of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Methodology of EMDR; Development in 1987 by Francine Shapiro, senior research fellow at the…
When Sophie read about EMDR in the newspaper, she immediately felt the psychotherapy approach might help her. It was worth a try. She'd been in what she calls regular therapy for several years to resolve divorce issues and had already tried hypnosis…
When I initially heard of EMDR, I was totally uninterested. I was happy with my repertoire of skills and simply could not be bothered. However, the reports of colleagues who had the training were so exceptional I thought it was time to have a look. I…
The Tibbetts (not their real name) credit EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing - a relatively new technique used on adults to defuse memories of traumatic events ranging from surgery and car accidents to combat and rape.
By the time that vietnam veteran Jerry Smith (not his real name) found his way to psychologist John Black at the Veterans Administration North Texas Health Care System in Dallas in the fall of 1995, he was an absolute mess. In and out of the V.A.…
"They used it initially with Vietnam vets (suffering from PTSD). We use it a lot now with sexual traumas. Now, the one thing I really like about EMDR, if anybody is really stuck in therapy, it can serve as a wonderful way to go in, try it and see if…
A volunetter network of therapists trained in post-traumatic stress disorder is providing free treatment programs for people affected by the World Trade Center terrorist attack. The clinicians are trained in a technique called eye movement…
Now proponents of a controversial and increasingly popular treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, are offering free therapy sessions to the latest group of traumatized…
Now, they've taken to furiously wagging their fingers in front of the patient's face. It's called ``Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing,'' or EMDR to the cognoscenti, and it's the latest rage, practiced now by thousands of respected…
Now, they've taken to furiously wagging their fingers in front of the patient's face. It's called "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing," or EMDR to the cognoscenti, and it's the latest rage, practiced now by thousands of respected…
Colorado Springs psychologist Sandra Wilson, an expert in a therapy called Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, was asked to come and help. She was accompanied by a team of American psychologists, and they worked side by side with a young…
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…
Drug Court's new trauma treatment program is centered on a relatively new and still controversial form of therapy known as eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an alternative to traditional talk therapies, may seem bizarre. Patients must follow the therapist's fingers waving before their eyes, as if they were trying to keep track of a tennis match. Or…
Oct. 4, 2001 1 Dr. Uri Bergmann has heard some horrific stories lately. Several of his therapy patients had worked for the Port Authority, on the 69th floor of World Trade Center 1, and their memories of Sept. 1 1 are gruesome.
Where do you get the blues? Most people would say in the head. That's where we look for mental problems. Depression, anxiety, distress are all the result of brain chemistry going wrong - not enough serotonin, for example. And that's why we treat them…
At 38, Emma was walking Which? -guide to therapies: behaviourist, cognitive, hypnosis, family and psychiatry. For 18 years she had tried the lot in an increasingly despairing attempt 'to conquer her agoraphobia. So it was with considerable scepticism…
In the seven years since, she has developed this discovery into a treatment she calls Eye Movement Densensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR. It involves a series of maneuvers that alternate left or right attention while the patient focuses on the…
But now there's a new choice, called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). It's a therapy so low-tech that it sounds like magic or science fiction. But it works, and in a fraction of the time that it takes talk therapy to work, said…
A powerful and relatively new form of psychotherapy has shown to have positive results for survivors of trauma. EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) has been shown to reprocess traumatic events so the client is no longer troubled by…
Discusses the alternative psychological therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Its use for people suffering from post-traumatic stress-disorder; Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., developer of EMDR; Why patients watch a waving hand…
EMDR is an adaptive information processing treatment model that uses dual attention through bilateral stimulation to help resolve traumatic and distressing emotional experiences.
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…
The article was clearly written to denigrate this effective and efficacious treatment. Conveniently, the article failed to mention the plethora of research supporting the use of EMDR as a valid, helpful treatment not only for post-traumatic stress…
The Post did an especially untimely disservice in ridiculing EMDR ["EMDR, In the Eye of the Storm," Oct. 30]. For survivors in need of serious and sensitive mental health care, EMDR adds a valuable dimension to the recovery process.
Then a sixth therapist, Nashville psychologist Wallace Reynolds, suggested EMDR, eye movement desensitization reprocessing, a relatively new psychotherapy technique that opens the boxes where monsters dwell so the mind can flick the switch and send…
Many clinicians considered Shapiro's method to be nothing short of a breakthrough, and the technique, conceived by the then California graduate student with a background in English literature, quickly turned the psychology field on its head.
Over time, the memory helped shape the low self-esteem, disturbed sleep, anxiety and depression that brought him to Carole MacKenzie's psychotherapy practice in Hartford last year. MacKenzie, a clinical social worker, used a technique called Eye…
Discouraged by six months of conventional psychotherapy, Sgt. Baumgartner turned last August to a treatment called EMDR, or "eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing."
Questions whether the trendy therapy technique called EMDR (eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing) is the new Prozac or the old snake oil.EMDR Institute, Pacific Grove, California; Francine Shapiro, who invented EMDR; How it is used; Patient…
Jeffries' psychologist used eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing. EMDR therapy is based on the principle that traumatic memories are stored differently in the brain --- recorded as bits and pieces. EMDR tries to create "cohesive images" by…
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy used to relieve the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. EMDR was developed in 1987 by American psychologist Dr. Francine Shapiro. Shapiro studied the impact of…
An article in Wednesday's Silicon Valley Life section failed to identify both authors of ''EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma.'' Margot Silk Forrest wrote the book with Francine Shapiro.
(EMDR) was developed by Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. from the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto in 1987 and was utilied clinically beginning in 1989 with Vietnam veterans. Numerous scientific studies have been and continue to be done and data…
EMDR proponents claim it is effective where traditional therapies have failed. They say EMDR works a lot faster than talk therapy to help people work through deeply rooted memories and traumatic events. Myra sought out therapist Donna Knudsen, a…
