Dr. Steve Silver has worked with trauma survivors and their families since 1972, including 26 years as director of the inpatient PTSD program at the Coatesville V.A. Medical Center. Now retired from the V.A., Silver continues to serve in the…
Then Dr. Silver read about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR for short - in the Journal of Traumatic Stress. He was immediately suspicious.
He established the program and is a recognized expert in a form of stress therapy with a long, complex name known by its initials, EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing).
Psychologist Steve Silver was skeptical of the strange new therapy but he felt desperate. Facing him sat a middle aged man whose prductive life was ended 20 years ago.As a young soldier in Vietnam, his mental health had been shattered in one split…
Questions whether the trendy therapy technique called EMDR (eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing) is the new Prozac or the old snake oil.EMDR Institute, Pacific Grove, California; Francine Shapiro, who invented EMDR; How it is used; Patient…
