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"Winter is coming!"—Treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder imagery after viewing the television series Game of Thrones

This article presents the detailed case of a 27-year-old man who began to suffer from intrusive imagery after watching a brutal scene in the TV series Game of Thrones. The content of the intrusive imagery included images of people with enucleated…

Tags: Aggressive Thought, Clinical Decisions Point, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, OCD Imagery, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

“Tackling trauma to overcome OCD resistance” (The TTOOR Florence trial) Efficacy of EMDR plus CBT versus CBT alone for inpatients with resistant obsessive compulsive disorder. Protocol for a randomized comparative outcome trial

Researchers and clinicians have recently highlighted the usefulness of integrating additional therapeutic approaches into standard intensive cognitive behavioural treatments (CBT) with the aim to improve clinical outcomes for patients with severe…

Tags: CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Inpatient, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Randomized Comparison, Randomized Controlled Trial, RCT

EMDR in OCD patients

OCDs are difficult to treat. Various studies have demonstrated that 15–40% of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) do not respond to it; they cannot be motivated to undergo treatment, drop out, or experience persisting difficulties in…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Standard Paper

A case report on the effectiveness of virtual eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy in childhood OCD

OCD is a very common mental illness that frequently manifests as an obsession with cleanliness, doubts, fear of harming oneself or others, religious, and sexual concerns. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy uses a…

Tags: Childhood OCD, Obsession, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Psychiatric Ilness, Virtual EMDR

A randomised controlled trial comparing EMDR and CBT for obsessive-compulsive disorder

Background: This study aimed to evaluate eye-movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) as a treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), by comparison to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based on exposure and response prevention.…

Tags: CBT, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Randomized Controlled Trial, RCT

Attachment, affect tolerance, and avoidance targets in obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

Tags: Affect Tolerance, Attachment, Avoidance Target, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

Case conceptualization: Decision points in EMDR with children for attachment, dissociation, and concurrent diagnosis including OCD, ADHD, and PTSD

This presentation will focus on illustrating decision points in EMDR in case conceptualization with children involving complex diagnoses. Videotapes will include sessions with young children diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),…

Tags: ADHD, Attachment Disorder, Case Conceptualization, Children, Dissociation, Inverse Protocol, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Case series: EMDR processing of OCD symptoms

The present paper is an attempt to extend the mechanisms of action in EMDR beyond the processing of past traumatic experiences. The two subjects in the case series have not processed past traumatic experiences, and have attained significant progress…

Tags: Case Series, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

CBT combined with EMDR for resistant refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder: Report of three cases

Objective: Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is the most studied and empirically validated form of treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). However, this therapeutic modality can be extremely…

Tags: CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention, OCD, Resistant Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Children and OCD: Extending the treatment paradigm

Tammy, a vivacious 6-year-old, was brought to my office by her parents who had observed the development of ritualistic behaviors soon after Tammy started to walk. These rituals consisted of arranging her toys to such a precise degree that she was…

Tags: Children, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

Cognitive and behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders: A review of meta-analytic findings

Behavioral and cognitive psychotherapies are the most widely studied psychological interventions for anxiety disorders. In the present article, the results of ten years of meta-analytic studies on psychotherapies for the various anxiety disorders are…

Tags: Anxiety, GAD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Panic Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Social Phobia

Comparison between combine EMDR and drug with drug only in reduction symptoms and severity of obsessive compulsive disorder

This study was a comparison between the effects of combine eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and drug, with drug only, in the reduction of symptoms and severity obsessive compulsive disorder. Thirty patients that were assessed as…

Tags: Drug Treatment, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Poster

Comparison of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing with citalopram in treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder

Objective. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is one of the chronic anxiety disorders that interfere with routine individual life, occupational and social functions. There is controversy about the first choice of treatment for OCD between medication…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

Dual focus treatment: OCD and PTSD

Clients who are diagnosed with OCD often have a comorbid trauma diagnosis. It is essential that clinicians understand the similarities and the differences in OCD and PTSD symptomatology. Symptoms often overlap; however, they differ in functionality.…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Easy EMDR for addiction and OCD's: The world’s no.1 clinically approved anxiety treatment to resolve addictions & OCD

Learn how to permanently resolve and treat the emotional triggers causing addictions and OCD’s in just 4 easy steps at home. Adult Mental Health issues including addiction around the world are growing rapidly, we are experiencing a global mental…

Tags: Addiction, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

Effectiveness of exposure/response prevention plus eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in reducing anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms associated with stressful life experiences: A randomized controlled trial

BackgroundObsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is known as a non-psychotic mental disorder resistant to treatment. It has been found that eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) can increase the effectiveness of its standard treatments.…

Tags: Anxiety, Exposure and Response Prevention, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

El arte y la pasión al tratar pacientes con TOC y Síndrome de Tourette a lo largo de 17 añosArt and the passion in treating patients with OCD and tourette syndrome over 17 years

Tags: ART, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR - Therapie bei einem Inzestopfer mit zwangsgedanken und erektiler dysfunktionEMDR therapy for an incest victim with obsessive-compulsive thought and erectile dysfunction

Berichtet wird über einen 40-jährigen Mann mit emotional instabiler Persönlichkeitsstörung und Polytoxikomanie in der Anamnese, der seit Jahren unter Erektionsstörungen im sexuellen Zusammensein mit besonders geliebten Frauen litt und wegen…

Tags: Erectile Dysfunction, Incest, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR and OCD

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a chronic illness with recurrent obsessions, persistent thoughts and compulsions, such as repetitive behaviors that are performed after obsessions. Current treatment for such a disorder includes antidepressants…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR bij obssesieve compulsieve stoornisEMDR at obsessive compulsive disorder

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR can help liberate morally self-ambivalent OCD sufferers

3 case studies are presented illustrating the utility of EMDR in complex treatment-resistant OCD. The cases are considered from the perspective of OCD as a defence protecting against underlying trauma and issues arising from ambivalent attachment.

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Poster

EMDR dans le traitement d’un trouble obsessif compulsif: Une étude de cas EMDR in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder: A case study

Le trouble obsessif compulsif (TOC) est un trouble anxieux généralement chronique se présentant avec des obsessions récurrentes tel des idées persistantes, des images mentales et des compulsions (suivant les obsessions) tel des actes physiques ou…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR eye movement desensitization & reprocessing therapy: A new hope to overcome anxiety, depression, PTSD, BPD, OCD, ADHD and addiction

Here is the ultimate self-guide to the Eye Movement Desensitization and Resolution (EMDR) process. With just a few steps, with this book/workbook, you can easily access the tested method to say good-bye finally: To the trauma that has taken hold of…

Tags: Addiction, ADHD, Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, BPD, Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PSTD

EMDR for OCD

Building upon a previous workshop (Marr 2011) looking at the use of EMDR in the treatment of OCD. This presentation will examine an outline form of an EMDR Protocol for OCD based around Mental Video Playback and BLS (Marr 2012).

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, BLS, Mental Video Playback, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR for treatment of anxiety disorder in a patient with intellectual disability

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured, eight-phase, mainly non-verbal psychotherapeutic approach that is developed to resolve symptoms that have stemmed from disturbing and unprocessed life experiences. EMDR is well…

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Intellectual Disabilities, Learning Disability, Mental Retardation, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

EMDR for treatment of anxiety disorders in a patient with intellectual disability - A case report

Background: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured, eight-phase psychotherapeutic approach, developed to resolve symptoms resulting from disturbing and unprocessed life experiences. EMDR is well known for the treatment…

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Intellectual Disabilities, Learning Disability, Mental Retardation, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

EMDR in der behandlung der zwangsstörung EMDR in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder

In diesem praxisorientierten Workshop wird der Einsatz von EMDR bei Zwangsstörungen vorgestellt und eingeübt. Dabei wird auf Besonderheiten beim Einsatz von EMDR ebenso eingegangen wie auf die Kombination mit Reizkonfrontationen (Expositionsübungen).…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR in der behandlung der zwangsstörung EMDR in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder

In diesem praxisorientierten Workshop wird der Einsatz von EMDR bei Zwangsstörungen vorgestellt und eingeübt. Dabei wird auf Besonderheiten beim Einsatz von EMDR ebenso eingegangen wie auf die Kombination mit Reizkonfrontationen (Expositionsübungen).…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR in der behandlung von zwangsstörungen Use of EMDR in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders

In der Therapie von Zwangsstörungen mit den herkömmlichen Methoden der Verhaltenstherapie kommt es immer wieder zu Problemen innerhalb der Behandlung: 1. therapieresistente Fälle trotz Expositionen lege artis 2. Emotionsarbeit häufig problematisch 3.…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR in der behandlung von zwangsstörungen: Eine fallserie Use of EMDR in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders: A case series

Hintergrund: Die kognitive Verhaltenstherapie mit Exposition und Reaktionsverhinderung ist die am besten untersuchte und derzeit wirksamste Therapie bei Zwängen. 15–40% der Patienten können jedoch nicht von diesem Verfahren profitieren. Sie berichten…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Psychotherapeutic Method, Psychotherapy Research

EMDR in der behandlung zur zwangsstorung EMDR in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder

In diesem praxisorientierten Workshop den Einsatz von EMDR mit Zwangsstörung (OCD) werden vorgestellt und geübt werden. In diesem Workshop werden wir die Besonderheiten der Verwendung von EMDR sowie die Kombination mit Stimulus Konfrontation…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR in obsessive compulsive symptoms in young children: Case series

• Various Studies have shown onset of Obsessive Compulsive (OC) Behaviors in Very Young Children (3 years to 8 years)(Hirano et. al, 2007; Jennifer et. Al, 2014 ). • Allemagne (2009) suggested EMDR offer promising techniques and new avenues in…

Tags: Children, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Poster

EMDR in the treatment of adolescent obsessive-compulsive disorder: A case study

Most of the empirical evidence supporting the efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) has been with individuals suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This case study reports on the successful treatment of…

Tags: Adolescents, Anxiety, Children’s Yale-Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR in the treatment of OCD and eating disorders

This presentation will familiarize participants with an overview of the assessment, case conceptualization, and methodology involved in the treatment of persons with Obsessive Complusive Disorder (OCD) and Eating Disorders (ED). OCD and ED will be…

Tags: Eating Disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR in the treatment of panic, phobia, and obsessive compulsive disorders

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Panic Disorders, Phobias

EMDR in the treatment of panic, phobia, and obsessive compulsive disorders

I have been using EMDR to treat Anxiety Disorders for five years now. I received my training back when Francine taught Level I herself. EMDR is to mental health what penicillin was to medicine. It seemed to me that I had traded in a jack hammer for a…

Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Panic Disorder

EMDR safety platform for early and transgenerational trauma: Description and an OCD application

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Safety Platform

EMDR therapy and OCD

This chapter examines the use of EMDR therapy for individuals with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). The chapter reviews the evidence for the use of EMDR, how obsessive–compulsive symptoms and trauma may occur more frequently than assumed, and how…

Tags: ERP, Exposure with Response Prevention, In Vivo Triggering, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR therapy with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a bio-psycho-socio-cultural disorder that includes genetic, neural brain anomalies, traumatic experiences, and development of dysfunctional beliefs that can be learnt from others and from the environment. The…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: Preliminary research

This article reports the results of two experiments, each investigating a different eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) protocol for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and each with two young adult male participants with…

Tags: Adapted EMDR Phobia Protocol, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Phobia Protocol, Research, Treatment Outcome

EMDR treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: Three cases

This article reports on the first 3 randomly allocated cases treated by the author in an ongoing trial comparing eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) with cognitive behavioral therapy (exposure and response prevention) in the…

Tags: Adapted EMDR Phobia Protocol, Case Study, Mixed Method, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Randomized Controlled Trial

EMDR with obsessive compulsive disorder – an Indian experience

This is a history of a 35 yrs. old man who came with symptoms of OCD. He was initially treated with medication and CBT. He did show some improvement and was maintained on medication. He did not follow-up for a long time. He narrated an incident,…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR: A new OCD protocol

OCD is described and current recognised treatment approaches are outlined. Existing literature regarding the treatment of OCD with EMDR is reviewed. Theories about the aetiology of OCD are described in relation to the Adaptive Information Processing…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

EMDR: Developments in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder

The use of Eye Movement, Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) with the addition of a Mental Videotape with any disturbance experience by the client reprocessed with EMDR has been trialled within this research document as an alternative to exposure…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Treatment

EMDR's efficacy for obsessive compulsive disorder

This article evaluates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for individuals with a diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Two randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been conducted on 55 and 90 patients with OCD.…

Tags: Behavioral Strategy, Exposure, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Strategies

Ephedra alkaloids and brief relapse in EMDR-treated obsessive compulsive disorder

Letter to the editor commenting on an article by E. Ernst (see record 2003-05653-002). We report the case of a patient who was effectively treated for severe obsessive compulsive disorder but relapsed briefly following ingestion of herbal products…

Tags: Comment, Desensitization, Ephedra, Ephedra Alkaloid, Letter, Luvoxamine, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Plant Preparation, Relapse, Reply, Review, Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors

Ephedra alkaloids and brief relapse in EMDR-treated obsessive compulsive disorder, reply

Reply by the current author to the comments made by E.M. Corrigan and J. Jennett (see record 2004-16054-010) on the original article (see record 2003-05653-002). They describe a 29-year-old woman with an obsessive compulsive disorder relapse…

Tags: Comment, Ephedra Alkaloid, Letter, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Relapse, Reply

Examination of initial evidence for EMDR as a treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating psychological condition that impacts millions of people globally. The front-line psychological intervention for OCD is exposure/response prevention (ERP), however, many individuals do not respond…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Review, Treatment

Examination of initial evidence for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing as a treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating psychological condition that impacts millions of people globally. The front-line psychological intervention for OCD is exposure/response prevention (ERP), however, many individuals do not respond…

Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Review, Treatment

Group therapy with OCD: Development and outcome of diagnosis specific treatment of patients with OCD in groups

Meta analysis studies show important effects of cognitive therapy and behavioural therapy for OCD, but further knowledge about resource saving formats such as group therapy is needed and there are only few relevant studies available. We developed a…

Tags: Cognitive-Behavioral Group Treatment, Group Therapy, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

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