Using EMDR to treat complex PTSD and dissociation

This workshop will provide a framework for treating complex PTSD (CPTSD) using EMDR. It will review core elements of PTSD, the three added features characteristic of CPTSD, then demonstrate EMDR case conceptualization and targeting strategies for both adult- and childhood-onset chronic traumatization. The workshop will review new material in the theory of structural dissociation, describe how to recognize when dissociation (including ego-states) is interfering, disrupting, or even precluding EMDR in its different phases, and will provide a number of interventions to manage such dissociation, including working with dissociative ego-states, so that the EMDR can proceed productively.

Conference

English

Denise Gelinas

Gelinas, D. (2009, August). Using EMDR to treat complex PTSD and dissociation. Presentation at the 14th EMDR International Association Conference, Atlanta, GA