The secret of all three Portland-area residents (who requested that their real names not be used) is a simple new therapy with a complicated name: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMD/R for short.
It had been almost a year since the accident, and Lynn Hornbuckle felt herself getting worse, not better. She could not escape the deafening sound of the screeching tires and breaking glass. She was unable to turn her mind away from the moment the…
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy used to relieve the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. EMDR was developed in 1987 by American psychologist Dr. Francine Shapiro. Shapiro studied the impact of…
