When a person is subjected to a stressful event, their brain cannot process information as it does ordinarily. One moment becomes "frozen in time," and remembering a trauma may feel as bad as going through it the first time because the images,…
"What is effective in E.M.D.R. is not new, and what is new is not effective," said Dr. Richard McNally, an associate professor of psychology at Harvard and a vocal critic of the technique.
Sexually abused by a relative from the ages of 5 to 11, Deirdre, a 29-year-old nurse spend much of her life in a rage until she tried a new type of psychotherapy. The memory of her abuse was repressed until she was about 19, she said, then the…
Weeks after a Westchester woman was raped by her date at an upstate New York college, she started having panic attacks. They continwd for five years until, she sald, she found relief through a new psychotherapeutic technique: Eye Movement…
