EMDR and the integration of psychotherapy

Shapiro's Accelerated Information Processing Model proposes principles that may begin to explain the rapid therapeutic effects of EMDR. The presenter has extended the AIP Model to a general model of psychotherapy that integrates EMDR as well as the other various more traditional methods of psychotherapy. The proposed Four Activity Model (FAM) of psychotherapy posits that all methods can be viewed as containing up to four types of activity: 1) Accessing of information 2) Introduction of information 3) Facilitation of information processing 4) Inhibition of information accessing Methods can be discriminated by the activities they emphasize and the ways in which they implement these four activities. For example, psychoanalysis accesses by free association, where as Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy does so by direct questioning. The FAM model can be useful in teaching psychotherapy in guiding decision making by the therapist during therapy sessions. The purpose of this conversation hour is to briefly present this model, and then provide the opportunity for the presenter to get feedback on the model, and allow other participants to share their approaches to the integration of EMDR with other methods.

Conference

English

Howard Lipke

Lipke, H. (1997, July). EMDR and the integration of psychotherapy. Presentation at the 2nd EMDR International Association Conference, San Francisco, CA