Behavioral therapy works well for PTSD, according to a new meta-analysis
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Behavioral therapy works well for PTSD, according to a new meta-analysis Two psychological therapies provide the most and longest-acting relief to people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a meta-analysis in press in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. One of those therapies is the controversial eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR developer Francine Shapiro, PhD, says that the key to the therapy is having patients recall traumatic events while receiving some type of oscillatory stimulation such as following an object with their eyes as it rapidly moves from side-to-side or hearing tones in one ear and then the other. [Excerpt]
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Newsletter
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English
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“Behavioral therapy works well for PTSD, according to a new meta-analysis,” Francine Shapiro Library, accessed May 15, 2024, https://francineshapirolibrary.omeka.net/items/show/18532.