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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

Absorption technique

The Wedging or Strengthening Technique (Kiessling, 1999) has been modified in Germany and is called The Absorption Technique to create resources to deal with what the client is concerned about in the future, for example, a stressful partner, a…

Tags: Absorption Technique, Anxiety, Coping Behavior, Memory, Protocol, Psychotherapeutic Technique, Stress

Accessing traumatic memory through art making: An art therapy trauma protocol (ATTP)

In this article I propose an art therapy trauma protocol (ATTP) designed to address the non-verbal core of traumatic memory. Trauma theorists [van der Kolk, B.A. (2003). Frontiers in trauma treatment. Presented at the R. Cassidy Seminars, St. Louis,…

Tags: Art Therapy, Art Therapy Trauma Protocol, Arts, ATTP, Bilateral Art, Body-Based Psychotherapy, Creative Arts Therapy, Creativity, Emotions, Expressive Arts, Memory, Neurobiology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Trauma

Back of the head scale (BHS)

It appears that sets of bilateral stimulation (BLS; alternating eye movements, tones or hand taps) have the potential to invite unfinished traumatic experience into awareness. This can be a problem for many clients who are dissociative, or who are on…

Tags: Back of the Head Scale, BHS, Emotional Trauma, Memory, Protocol, Psychotherapeutic Technique

Basi teoriche e scientifiche del metodo di rielaborazione della memoria e ristrutturazione cognitiva facilitato dai movimenti oculari (EMDR) Theory and scientific method of reworking of memory and cognitive restructuring facilitated by eye movements (EMDR)

Tags: Cognitive Restructuring, Memory

Blurring of emotional and non-emotional memories by taxing working memory during recall

Memories that are recalled while working memory (WM) is taxed, e.g., by making eye movements (EM), become blurred during the recall + EM and later recall, without EM. This may help to explain the effects of Eye Movement and Desensitisation and…

Tags: Emotion, Eye Movements, Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Vividness

Can eye movements treat trauma?

The article focuses on the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Research supports the concept of using eye movements in reducing the symptoms of PTSD. Researchers…

Tags: Eye Movements, Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment

Changing unwanted memories : A consideration of three methods

A substantial minority develops posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the months following a traumatic event. Central to disorder is an unwanted memory about the traumatic event. Though psychological treatment exists for PTSD, a significant number…

Tags: Experimental Psychopathology, Memory, Motivated Forgetting, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Reconsolidation

CravEx: An EMDR approach to treat substance abuse and addiction

Thirty years of addiction research have provided sufficient evidence for the crucial role of memory in drug dependency. The addiction memory (AM) serves as a useful concept for obsessive-compulsive craving to be seen in drug addicted patients…

Tags: Addiction, Comorbidity, CravEx, Craving, Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Memory, Protocol, Psychotherapeutic Technique, Substance Abuse

Current anxiety and behavior

This protocol is for clients with anxieties not related to major trauma. The focus here is the Standard EMDR Protocol. This is a summary of the Current Anxiety and Behavior Protocol scripted by Marilyn Luber (Shapiro, 2001, 2006). For current anxiety…

Tags: Anxiety, Behavior Problems, Current Anxiety, Memory, Protocol, Psychotherapeutic Technique

Do lateral eye movements increase susceptibility to misinformation? A registered replication

Eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) has been employed as a treatment for individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Shapiro, 1989). In EMDR, people perform a series of lateral eye movements while they retrieve memories…

Tags: False Memory, Memory

Effect of eye movement on memory and attention: Preliminary study

Current study is investigating whether eye movement, which is used in EMDR (Eye movement and desensitization and reprocessing) therapy, has disturbing or facilitating function for cognitive task. We applied memory task to fifteen students with six…

Tags: Attention, Memory

Effects of a single session of EMDR, flooding, and a credible placebo treatment on traumatic memories in male veterans

This study explored the effectiveness of a single session of three different treatments for traumatic memories. Subjects were 45 adult males, randomly assigned to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Flooding, or Placebo therapy…

Tags: Adult, Clinical Trial, Emotional Trauma, Empirical Study, Evaluation, Male, Memory, Military, Treatment Effectiveness, Treatment Outcome, Veterans

Efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing procedure in the treatment of traumatic memories: A replication study

The purpose of this replication study was either to support or refute the original Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing research conducted by Shapiro. The present study was amended with two additional indices to assess anxiety and social…

Tags: Adult, Anxiety, Child Abuse, Empirical Study, Experimental Replication, Incest, Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Rape, Self-Evaluation, Social Adjustment, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

EMDR and case conceptualization from an adaptive information processing perspective

In its 20-year history, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) has evolved from a simple technique into an integrative psychotherapy approach with a theoretical model that emphasizes the brain's information processing system and…

Tags: Adaptive Information Processing, AIP, Brain, Cognitive Processes, Integrative Psychotherapy, Memories, Memory, Pathology, Psychotherapy Approach, Stored Experience

EMDR applied to reprocess the addiction memory in alcohol addicted in-patients – Outcome and follow-up data of a clinical study

Substance abuse and its sequels often mean intense suffering for the individual and huge costs for society. Established treatment modalities, as good as they are, lack effectiveness. Comorbid PTST with substance abusers is more the rule, than the…

Tags: Addiction, Memory, Substance Abuse

EMDR e memoria: Una discussione per desensibilizzare e riprocessareEMDR and memory: A discussion to desensitize and reprocess

È possibile recuperare una memoria andata perduta? Questo intervento si propone di commentare alcune importanti questioni rispetto all’impatto dell’Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing sulla memoria autobiografica. La tecnica EMDR si sta…

Tags: Exceptional Memory, False Memory, Inhibitory Processes in Memory, Involuntary Memory, Memory, Non-Believed Memory, Non-Placebo, Placebo

EMDR for childhood PTSD after road traffic accidents: Attentional, memory, and attributional processes

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) was used with 11 children who developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after road traffi c accidents. All improved such that none met criteria for PTSD on standardized assessments after an…

Tags: Attention, Attribution, Car Accident, Children, Memory, Non-Randomized Study, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

EMDR in der traumatherapie : Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) ist ein effektiver und effizienter ansatz zur behandlung posttraumatischer syndrome und darüber hinausEMDR in the trauma: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an effective and efficient approach to the treatment of post-traumatic syndromes and beyond

Der Artikel soll eine spezielle Methode illustrieren, die ursprünglich für die Bearbeitung posttraumatischer Syndrome entwickelt wurde, aber darüber hinaus für die Integration belastender Erinnerungen geeignet ist, die sich über Auslöser als…

Tags: Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Planning

EMDR memoria e terapiaEMDR therapy and memory

A terapia EMDR está fortemente ligada aos estudos sobre a memoria. O tratamento EMDR baséase na identificación, acceso, e procesamento das memorias asociadas cos problemas actuais do paciente, é dicir, aquelas experiencias que o cerebro non podería…

Tags: Information Processing, Memory, Trauma

EMDR practitioners’ beliefs about memory

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a widely used treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. The idea behind EMDR is that lateral eye movements may mitigate the emotional impact of traumatic memories. Given the focus on…

Tags: Belief, Memory, Recovered Memory Debate, Repressed Memories, Repression

EMDR toegepast op de addicition geheugen in alcohol verslaafde patiënten opnieuw te verwerken in - Resultaten en follow-up gegevens van een klinische studie EMDR applied to reprocess the addicition memory in alcohol addicted in-patients – Outcome and follow-up data of a clinical study

Alcohol afhankelijkheid en haar gevolg op betekenen vaak intens lijden voor het individu en enorme kosten voor de samenleving. Gevestigde behandelmethoden, zo goed als ze zijn, gebrek aan effectiviteit. Uit recent onderzoek op het gebied van de…

Tags: Addiction, Inpatient, Memory

EMDR--心理療法あるいは記憶と感情の基礎心理学のための実験パラダイム EMDR - Experimental paradigm for psychological therapy or basic psychology of memory and emotion

Tags: Emotional Basis, Memory, Psychological Basis

EMDR: A case for pre-verbal memory?

The use of EMDR with children aged 4 years and over who have been exposed to physical abuse, disasters and other traumatic incidents in their infancy and early childhood is beginning to reveal some interesting material. The characteristics of the…

Tags: Memory, Occasional Paper, Pre-verbal

EMDR: Experimentele studie naar de werkgeheugentheorie en introductie van de afleidingstheorie EMDR: Experimental study of the working memory theory and introduction of the distraction theory

Eye Movement and Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) is al jaren een veelgebruikte behandelmethode voor Post-traumatische Stresstoornis (PTSS). In voorgaande onderzoeken werd een verklaringsmechanisme voor het effect van EMDR aangetoond, de…

Tags: Distraction, Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

EMDRは不快な記憶を脱感作できるのか? ERPによる実証的研究 Does eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) desensitization painful memories?: Research using brain-event-related potentials (ERP)

本研究では、EMDRによって不快な記憶が脱感作されるかを、精神生理学的な指標であるP3を用いて検討した。本研究の被験者は41名(女性26名、男性15名)である。まず、重度に不快な記憶をもつ31名の大学生の被験者を3つの群に割り当てた;EMDR群(n=10)では不快な記憶を想起しながら眼球運動を行い、Image群(n=10)では視覚刺激を凝視しながら不快な記憶の想起を行い、…

Tags: Brain-Event-Related Potential, ERP, Memory, P3, Painful Memory

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) practitioners’ beliefs about memory

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a widely used treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. The idea behind EMDR is that lateral eye movements may mitigate the emotional impact of traumatic memories. Given the focus on…

Tags: Belief, Memory, Recovered Memory Debate, Repressed Memories, Repression

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Eye movements during positive closure - A patient study

BackgroundPositive closure constitutes the seventh step in the EMDR protocol. It is thought to increase the patient’s belief in a chosen positive verbal material. According to the working memory theory, making eye movements creates a less positive…

Tags: Adaptive Information Processing Theory, Eye Movements, Memory, Positive Closure, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Stationary Eye Movements, Trauma, Working Memory Theory

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Onderzoek naar het verloop van helderheid en onaangenaamheid van een negatieve herinnering Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Research on the evolution of brightness and unpleasantness of a negative memory

Tags: Emotionality, Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Unpleasantness

Final comments on Lipke's critique of Lohr, Tolin, and Lilienfeld (1998)

Responds to H. Lipke's critique of J. Lohr, D. Tolin, and S. Lilienfeld's study which reviews 17 studies on the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and the conceptual analysis of its mechanisms of action. The authors…

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Behavior Therapy, Emotional Trauma, Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Traumatic Memories

History taking: The time line

Client history taking is an important part of well-prepared clinicians' understanding of their clients. The Time Line Script (Hofmann, 2004) is based on a number of personal communications with other EMDR clinicians. The forms are a way of eliciting…

Tags: Autobiographical Memory, Client, History, Item Content (Test), Memory, Patient History, Protocol, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Schema

How does EMDR work? An exploration of possible neurobiological mechanisms

Participants will: 1) gain an understanding as to the formation and consolidation of emotions and memory; 2) understand the pathways of trauma in the brain and their respective psychological symptoms; 3) become more knowledgeable about the…

Tags: Emotion, Hypotheses of Accelerated Information Processing, Memory, Neurobiology, Neurological Research, Treatment Effects

How the body remembers trauma

Memory is comprised of the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information gathered from the communication network of the body's nervous system. Traumatic memory can go awry when communication between brain and nervous system become short circuited.…

Tags: Body, Brain, Memory, Trauma

Investigating the effect of goal-directed eye movements during extinction on amygdala activity and long-term expression of fear memory

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is seen as a promising treatment option for fear-related psychiatric diseases such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Indeed, experimental studies have shown that performing goal-directed…

Tags: Fear Conditioning, Medial Temporal Lobe Suppression Hypothesis, Memory, Poster, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Las traiciones de la memoria The betrayal of memory

Tags: Memory

Memory and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy: A potentially risky combination in the courtroom

Does Eye Movement and Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy affect the accuracy of memories? This recurrent issue in recent memory research bears relevance to expert witness work in the courtroom. In this review, we will argue that several…

Tags: Courtroom, Expert Witness, False Memory, Memory

Memory and identity in PTSD: Core processes underlying treatment efficacy

PTSD appears to incorporate two quite separate sets of processes. One is concerned with specific reactions to extreme threat. The encoding of long-lasting image-based memories interferes with the encoding of verbal memories that are necessary to…

Tags: Identity, Memory, Plenary, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Memory and the brain: Some thoughts about the neurobiology of regeneration

This article is a Modification of a talk at the Swedenborg Scientific Association Annual Meeting in Bryn Athyn on 5 May 2001.In June 1998 I learned of a technique called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), for treating painful…

Tags: Brain, Memory, Neurobiology

Memory systems, EMDR and other psychotherapies

Tags: Memory

Memory, identity and post-traumatic stress disorder

Recent research indicates that the reactions to a traumatic event we know as PTSD are complicated because they may incorporate two quite separate sets of processes. One set of processes is concerned with specific reactions to extreme threat. The…

Tags: Identity, Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Modified resource development and installation (RDI) procedures with dissociative clients

The Resource Development Installation (RDI) intervention described here focuses on helping dissociative clients develop resources to address their issues. There are three steps to the intervention: Step 1. Introduces EMDR and the procedure. Step 2.…

Tags: DID, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Protocol, Psychotherapeutic Technique, PTSD, RDI, Resource Development and Installation, Trauma

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

On EMDR: Eye movements during retrieval reduce subjective vividness and objective memory accessibility during future recall

In eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), patients make eye movements (EM) during trauma recall. Earlier experimental studies found that EM during recall reduces memory vividness…

Tags: Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Reaction Time Test

On the neural basis of EMDR therapy: Insights from qEEG studies

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy has been shown by empirical studies to be effective in relief from psychological traumas including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Several logical concepts regarding the origin of the…

Tags: Memory, Neuronal Response Frequency, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Psychological consequences of awareness and their treatment

Intraoperative awareness with subsequent recall is a rare but serious complication with an incidence of 0.1–0.2%. In approximately one third of the patients who have experienced awareness, late severe psychiatric sequelae may develop. The psychiatric…

Tags: Anesthesia, Awareness, CBT, Consciousness, Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Restoring the body: Bessel van der Kolk on yoga, EMDR, and treating trauma

Human memory is a sensory experience says psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk. Through his longtime research and innovation in trauma treatment, he shares what he's learning how bodywork like yoga or eye movement therapy can restore a sense of goodness…

Tags: Memory

Single session treatment of nontraumatic fear of flying with eye movement sensitization reprocessing: Pre and post-September 11

Eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) was originally developed to treat traumatic memories. Since its development, the application of EMDR has proliferated to various disorders. A single session utilizing the EMDR approach applied to the…

Tags: 9/11, Clinical Case Study, Emotional Trauma, Empirical Study, Event Memory, Experience, Fear of Flying, Follow-up Study, Memory, Phobias, September 11, Single Session, Terrorism

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