Which, how and why memory networks combine: A plasticity of meaning (PoM) extension to adaptive information processing (AIP)

Adaptive Information Processing (AIP), the theory that underpins EMDR may seem somewhat redundant given the burgeoning clinical database and numerous international recommendations all of which effectively point to ‘because EMDR works, it therefore works’. Put succinctly, does AIP serve any further purpose? The author argues that it does, but that its current bias toward explaining the reduction of Negative Psychological Change (NPC) needs to change. The author’s recent research has highlighted the extensive role of Figurative Language Use (FLU) in PPC resulting in participants’ increased ability to express him/herself following EMDR. To explain these observations, a ‘Plasticity of Meaning’ extension to AIP is proposed to account for PPC and thus convert AIP into a unifying theory of change. The result is to propose a ‘total beneficial outcome’ of EMDR that combines both existing evidence-based practice together with the optimisation of the Maslowvian concept of a client’s ‘full psychological height’.

Conference

English

David Blore

Blore, D. (2011, March). Which, how and why memory networks combine: A plasticity of meaning (PoM) extension to adaptive information processing (AIP). Presentation at the 9th EMDR Association UK & Ireland Annual Conference & AGM, Bristol, UK