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Treating trauma with EMDR: Healing from our nightmares

Francine Shapiro, originator of EMDR therapy, explains how to use EMDR to treat trauma. Her trauma treatment is one of the most effective trauma therapies, and here we get a first-hand look at how she uses it to treat patients with traumatic…

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Collision every night: Treating nightmares with trauma-focused methods: Case report

Introduction:We would like to present the case of a young patient with acute stress disorder and recurrent nightmares following the psychological trauma caused by a severe road traffic accident. The comprehensive therapy carried out at the Department…

Tags: Case Study, Nightmares

Le traitement des cauchemars à l’aide de l’EMDRThe treatment of nightmares using the EMDR

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Behandeling van nachtmerries bij een AMATreatment of nightmares at AMA

In het begin van 2014 wordt een alleenstaande minderjarige asielzoeker door zijn voogd aangemeld bij i-psy. Yusuf is dan 13 jaar en woont sinds 2012 in Nederland bij zijn oom en tante. Hij groeide op in Mogadishu, een zeer onveilige stad, waar al…

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Treating sleep disorders & nightmares with EMDR therapy

This workshop will focus on information useful in treating sleep disorders and nightmares within the context of EMDR therapy. Sleep information (including sleep stages and functions) and the way trauma interrupts the natural process of sleep and…

Tags: Nightmares, Sleep Disorders

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment of nightmares: A case report

A single client with depression and chronic nightmares was treated with 4 sessions of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and showed a decrease in nightmares and improvement in general well-being. The client’s 2 nightmare images were…

Tags: Case Study, Depression, Nightmares, Singapore, Treatment

Treating trauma with EMDR: Healing from our nightmares

Francine Shapiro, originator of EMDR therapy, explains how to use EMDR to treat trauma. Her trauma treatment is one of the most effective trauma therapies, and here we get a first-hand look at how she uses it to treat patients with traumatic…

Tags: Nightmares, Trauma

Eye movement desensitisation treatment of nightmares: A case report

The literature is burgeoning with outcome studies that suggest the application of imagery rescripting or imagery rehearsal techniques to trauma-related nightmares. In Imagery Rehearsal therapy (IRT), the patient is instructed to modify a recurrent…

Tags: Imagery Rehearsal Therapy, IRT, Nightmares

Disturbed sleep in post-traumatic stress disorder: Secondary symptom or core feature?

Sleep disturbances are often viewed as a secondary symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), thought to resolve once PTSD has been treated. Specific screening, diagnosis and treatment of sleep disturbances is therefore not commonly conducted…

Tags: Etiology, Insomnia, Nightmares, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, REM Sleep, Sleep, Sleep Apnea, Sleep Disorders, Treatment

Best practice guide for the treatment of nightmare disorder in adults

Prazosin is recommended for treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)-associated nightmares. Level A. Image Rehearsal Therapy (IRT) is recommended for treatment of nightmare disorder. Level A. Systematic Desensitization and Progressive Deep…

Tags: Nightmares, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PSTD

Sex, dreams and EMDR: Incorporating a focus on nightmares and dreams in therapy of sexual dysfunction

There is an increasing body of neuro-scientific knowledge linking the mechanism of action of EMDR to that of REM sleep. This workshop will discuss how to treat nightmare disorders of REM sleep using EMDR by reviewing cases of traumatically caused…

Tags: Dream, Nightmares, Sexual Dysfunction

Getting rid of repeating nightmares: A simple, potent, new recipe

Drs. Padin-Rivera and Donovan developed their iteration by tweaking Barry Krakow's Imagery Rehearsal Therapy, which you may have read about last fall in the New Yorker. They added some clever elements from Francine Shapiro's EMDR (Eye Movement…

Tags: Dream, Nightmares

The image director technique for dreams

The "Image Director Technique" was developed to target recurring nightmares or bad dreams and those targets that are directly related to a traumatic experience. Often, when patients are having nightmares or when they feel overwhelmingly out of…

Tags: Dream, Dream Analysis, Image Director Technique, Nightmares, Protocol, Psychotherapeutic Technique, Trauma

L'eye movement desensitization nel trattamento degli incubi: Presentazione di un caso The eye movement desensitization in the treatment of nightmares: Case presentation

Un nuovo metodo terapeutico, descritto nel 1989 da Shapiro e de nomina to "Eye Movement Desensitization", e stato applicato al trattamento di una neurodermatite causata da incubi ricorrenti in un giovane di diciotto anni. La procedura, in due sedute,…

Tags: Case Study, EMD, Neurodermatitis, Nightmares

EMDR: The breakthrough therapy for overcoming anxiety, stress, and trauma (1st Ed.)

Hailed as the most important method to emerge in psychotherapy in decades, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) has successfully treated psychological problems and illnesses--from depression, phobias, and recurrent nightmares to…

Tags: Anxiety, Depression, Emotional Trauma, Grief, Major Depression, Mental Disorders, Nightmares, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Stress, Therapy, Trauma

Treating children's nightmares with EMDR

This article discusses a protocol that aI have found particularly useful in the treatment of children's nightmares which have manifested from a single traumatic event (e.g., care accidents and hurricanes).

Tags: Children, Nightmares, Single Traumatic Event

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