Worst case scenarios:  Client fantasies during and after traumatic experiences using EMDR therapy

Standard EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) technique consists of repeatedly pairing recollections of the uauma with sets of eye movements. until patients' subjective levels of distress (SUDS) are dissipated for each and every aspect of the trauma. Once major elements of the event are desensitized, minor elements which were "overshadowed" or "crowded out" by the major elements of the event may surface. It is necessary to ensure that all associations and details of the trauma are recounted and desensitized by the therapist's use of EMDR.

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Sylvia Mills

Mills, S. (1998). Worst case scenarios: Client fantasies during and after traumatic experiences using EMDR therapy. Trauma Response, 32