Politicizing psychotherapy

In Less Than Meets The Eye (letter - March 16), Timothy Moore and James Alcock stated that EMDR's "enormous popularity as a treatment for anxiety disorders appears to have greatly outstripped the research evidence adduced for its efficacy." Although it is indisputable that the reasons for the effectiveness of eye-movement therapy (and all psychotherapies) are currently unknown, there is little debate about its efficacy in treating post-traumatic stress disorder. The only psychotherapies recognized by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies for treating PTSD are cognitive behavioural therapy and EMDR.

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Louise Maxfield

Maxfield, L. (2001, March 23). Politicizing psychotherapy. Thunder Bay, Canada: The Globe and Mail, Letter to the Editor, A14