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Once employed mostly to treat severely traumatized patients, EMDR is now used for such common problems as depression, loneliness, fear of flying, claustrophobia and stage fright. Since it was first devised by California psychologist Francine Shapiro…

[Joseph Wolpe]'s stamp of approval gave EMDR a certain psychotherapeutic cachet while [Francine Shapiro] continued to present her findings to researchers at universities and VA centers across the country. In 1989, she accepted a position at the…

Dr. Herbert's group concludes, "If procedure is heavily promoted through extraordinary claims, those claims must be accompanied by equally extraordinary empirical evidence."

This book offers a rigorous examination of a variety of therapeutic, assessment, and diagnostic techniques in clinical psychology, focusing on practices that are popular and influential but lack a solid grounding in empirical research. Featuring…

Qualitative reviews and meta-analyses of peer-reviewed EMDR outcome studies have consistently found that there is overwhelming evidence that eye movements are neither a necessary nor useful component of the general clinical protocol (e.g., Devilly,…

The most reasonabIe conclusion to be drawn from the extant literature is that EMDR is no more effective than standard treatments that rely on exposure to anxiety-provoking stimuli and is almost certainly effective because it happens to incorporate…

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Skepsis kan drives for vidt. To psykologer tager til genmæle over for EMDR-angrebet i sidste nummer af Psykolog Nyt. Skepticism may be driven too far. Two psychologists Takes contesting the EMDR attack in the latest issue of Psychology News.

While strolling through a park one day, Francine Shapiro notices that certain of her troubling thoughts suddenly lost their distressing qualities. Curious about what had happened; Shapiro regenerated the mental images and again found them no longer…

Originally published in Skeptical Inquirer January/February, 1996. Posted Quackwatch April 6, 2004.Quick fixes,, for emotional maladies have struck a responsive chord in the general public, as biopsychologist B. L. Beyerstein (1990) has noted Because…

In 1987 a 39-year-old, Brooklyn-born, new age seeker was walking in a park in San Gateo, California. Without warning she was overwhelmed with disturbing thoughts. They vanished as quickly as they had arrived, and on analysis she decided that the…

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a new technique rapidly gaining recognition among clinicians specializing in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (Shapiro, 1989b,c, 1991; Wolpe & Abrams, 1991, Puk, 1991). At…

Psychologist David Russell was starting to feel like a dentist who didn't use Novocain. Working with clients who were dealing with trauma meant dredging up memories in psychotherapy sessions -- an often painful process. ``We could effectively work…