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Every moment of a fall: A memoir of recovery through EMDR therapy

2016

Tags: Memoir, Personal Narrative, Trauma

My worst nightmare: A nurse's personal account of assault and recovery

A personal account of a psychiatric nurse's attack by a patient and her direct experience with PTSD.

Tags: Adult, Americans, Battery, Female, Injury, Nurse, Personal Narrative, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Workplace Trauma

EMDR-HAP training in Sri Lanka following the 2004 tsunami

On December 26, 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered a catastrophic tsunami. In Sri Lanka, 35,000 people died, 21,000 were injured, and more than half a million were displaced. An EMDR training program was conducted as a joint project of…

Tags: Adult, Children, Cross-Cultural Treatment, Humanitarian Effort, Indian Ocean Tsunami, Mental Health Personnel, Personal Narrative, Professional Training, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankans, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Tsunami

Use of eye movement to reduce stress after trauma

In 1987 an accidental discovery revealed an association between certain eye movements and reduced levels of distress resulting from traumatic memories. The result was a new psychological intervention, eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing…

Tags: Adult, British, Industrial Accidents, Personal Narrative, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychologist, PTSD, Review, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Transforming trauma - EMDR: The revolutionary new therapy for freeing the mind, clearing the body, and opening the heart

This book, addressed to a non-professional readership,"was born out of my desire to share with others the 'miracles' I have been privileged to witness both as a psychologist working with clients in a private practice setting and as an EMDR Institute…

Tags: Personal Narrative, Stressor, Survivor

Peaceful heart: A woman's journey of healing

Although I had a relatively happy childhood, I picked up many unspoken messages from the people around me about my physical body and my self-worth. At age 17, I was brutally beaten and raped in my family home. Based upon these often misinterpreted…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Effects, Female, Personal Narrative, Rape, Survivor

Personal accounts - Four therapists and a client: A personal journey

A psychiatric nurse therapist describes his experience of suffering a mental disorder, variously diagnosed as PTSD, obsessive compulsive disorder, and panic disorder, and variously treated by a succession of therapists with strong orientations to…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Male, Managed Care, Mental Health Personnel, Nurse, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Panic Disorder, Personal Narrative, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, TFT, Thought Field Therapy

Report from Sarajevo

This report discusses the experiences of a March 1995 trip to Zagreb, Croatia, where Drs. Geoff White, Gerry Puk, and Steve Silver were invited to train in EMDR MH professionals working with war victims. The main topics of focus were trauma. stress,…

Tags: Mental Health Personnel, Personal Narrative, Professional Training, Yugoslav Wars of Secession

Impact of the World Trade Center disaster on a Manhattan psychotherapy practice

On September 11, 2001, when two hijacked planes destroyed the World Trade Center, the world changed. As a clinical psychologist practicing in Manhattan, and specializing in trauma, the author has found the event's impact upon her work to be profound.…

Tags: 9/11, Americans, DID, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Personal Narrative, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychologist, PTSD, September 11, Survivor, Terrorism, Terrorist Attacks

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