“Patients need help with ‘now’ but don’t usually come in knowing what’s bothering them is a past trauma,” said counseling trainer Bonnie Mikelson. [Excerpt]
During the last year demand for psychological interventions has increased due to a number of factors. This, as well as personal factors, has led me to reflect more on how to best provide effective EMDR therapy. Questions asked during EMDR Case…
A combined research project by two universities has shown that an innovative treatment that involves rapid eye movements is reducing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress in trauma patients.
The easiest way to explain what EMDR does is that it helps with integrating the traumatic memory. It doesn’t erase the memory but it helps the person process it in a way so that it is not as troublesome anymore. When, for example, the car accident…
Psychologist Francine Shapiro introduced EMDR therapy to the mental health community in 1989, after she observed how eye movement can make emotional thoughts less intense.
Out of hardship often comes great art. That's the message behind "Every Song I Write Is For You," the album by Dale Watson that hits stores July 24. The hard-core honky-tonker wears his heart on his sleeve -- literally, the sleeve of his CD, which…
When it happened with Schley, she was introduced to a technique called eye movement desensitization and reprocessing or EMDR. The goal of EMDR is to help diminish the ongoing effects of distressing memories by engaging the brain's information…
“EMDR helps the vividness of the distressing imagery become less emotionally disturbing. It helps turn negative self-belief into something more positive,” says Paterson. [Excerpt]
'And you were really snoring deeply," declared the wife of a Taos Behavioral Health client in delight. Not the kind of message most wives might give to their spouse! But in this case, her husband experienced the first deep restful sleep he had had in…
Curing severe psychological trauma or phobias in people can take years. But a new therapy called EMDR is helping hundreds of thousands of patients cut that time to less than ten hours. Joining us now to talk about it is psychotherapist Sharon Cass…
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…
The goal of treatment should be to resolve this disconnect. “If we can help our patients tolerate their own bodily sensations, they’ll be able to process the trauma themselves,” he says. In his own patients, particularly those suffering from…
“The pain that I was in was so severe, I was crying 18 hours a day,” said Kate Keleher, referring to the effects of Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder on her life. That was before she discovered Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)…
Imagine being able to quickly banish phobias by rhythmically tapping on various body parts. How about a painless treatment that eliminates depression by exerting gentle pressure on a patient's shoulders or torso? What if it were possible to overcome…
The alternative therapy addressed in this article is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) developed by Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. in 1987. One day, while walking in a park, Dr. Shapiro made a connection between her involuntary eye…
EMDR is a controversial but widely used method for treating PTSD and other psychiatric conditions. Controversy surrounding EMDR stems from two main sources. FIrst, it lacks convincing scientific rationale. The main intervention in EMDR requires the…
That was four years ago. Today, Colleen Eliason, 42, is happily remarried and lives in Elko. But in the nightmarish days after the suicide, she turned to St. Paul psychologist Catherine Hedberg, who uses a tool called EMDR (Eye Movement…
The jury is still out on Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, or EMDR, a controversial new therapy for such mental illnesses as depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. But presentations at last week's American Psychiatric Association…
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method of psychotherapy developed by psychologist Francine Shapiro as a treatment for psychological distress associated with trauma, when she chanced to notice a connection between a decrease…
Curry: The theory behind this therapy, often called EMDR, is that when a disturbing event occurs, it can get locked in the nervous system with the original picture, sounds, thoughts, and feelings. The eye movement purportedly serves to unlock the…
Thank you for supporting therapy in your column. I'd like to tell you about a technique I've been using with clients for almost four years. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing helps people heal from traumas and works faster than just…
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…
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…
The types of entrenched post traumatic stress disorders where EMDR often helped: 1. Commonly. children and adults who had been sexually assaulted. ·2. Motor vehicle accident survivors. 3. Work-related unusual experiences. such as horrific memories…
A therapy which mimics Rapid Eye Movement during deep sleep is proving highly effective in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and repressed psychological pain. Denise Laing reports
When I raised my eyebrows in disbelief Dr Wolowski conceded he, too, had been extremely sceptical at first. But after six years of treating hundreds of patients with the technique, he is now one of its strongest advocates. While EMDR is still…
Behavioral therapy works well for PTSD, according to a new meta-analysis Two psychological therapies provide the most and longest-acting relief to people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a meta-analysis in press in Clinical…
Finally, my therapist suggested that I try a form of psychotherapy called EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. A bilateral stimulation therapy designed to unlock negative memories, feelings, and emotions, EMDR is a controversial…
There's also a treatment for post-traumatic stress called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Similar to techniques used in other effective treatments for this condition, EMDR therapists ask clients to review the traumatic events…
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…
“Memories can get stuck, like a splinter,” William Zangwill, a New York City-based EMDR therapist, tells The Post. EMDR doesn’t erase them, but it lessens their sting by “shifting the information” in a way that helps patients regain perspective, he…
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.
As we dream, our eyes flicker from side to side - Rapid Eye Movement sleep known as REM - and it may be that the flickering induced by EMDR stimulates the brain into spring- cleaning the negative images that have been deliberately brought to mind.
Sure, it sounds wacky, but 14 controlled studies support EMDR's effects, making it the most thoroughly researched method ever used in the treatment of trauma. It has also been supported by Professor Van der Kolk, of Harvard University, and a world…
Then Dr. Silver read about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR for short - in the Journal of Traumatic Stress. He was immediately suspicious.
EMDR is an adaptive information processing treatment model that uses dual attention through bilateral stimulation to help resolve traumatic and distressing emotional experiences.
I knew about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy from one of my best friends, Lily Burana. I had watched it do wonders for her and her combat-veteran husband, and I'd read her enthusiastic account of the experience in her memoir "I…
There's also a treatment for post-traumatic stress called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Similar to techniques used in other effective treatments for this condition, EMDR therapists ask clients to review the traumatic events…
Unlike most stereotypical images of mind alteration—“Psychiatric help, 5 cents” anyone?—this one is real. An obscure type of therapy known as EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is gaining ground as a potential treatment for…
"When I started teaching EMDR in 1990, I dubbed it experimental because I didn't want therapists using it without training and then hurting their patients," Shapiro said in a telephone interview. "But there's been eight years of research that shows…
That’s where EMDR therapy can help. While EMDR cannot remove a problem caused by genetics or organic injury, the research indicates that even in these cases negative life experiences can exacerbate problems. When a person is held back from doing…
It was only two months later, after she underwent a controversial psychotherapy technique called Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), that she was able to remember details of the sexual assault.
NHS [Ms] Forth Valley's head of behavioural psychotherapy, Therese McGoldrick, said victims of childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse often found it difficult to speak about what they had suffered. [Excerpt]
The engineer was recalling all this as he began a behavioral-health technique known as eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), which helps victims of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other types of psychological trauma to…
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…
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an eight-phase psychotherapeutic approach that emphasizes the physiological information processing system in the origin and treatment of mental health issues (Shapiro, 2001, 2014a). Its…
Many in the scientific community dispute EMDR's validity, but Ms. Fox and many patients of EMDR insist the method reduces stress and improves performance at key moments.
