EMDR—more than just a therapy for PTSD

Now recognised by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the World Health Organization as a treatment of choice for post-traumatic stress disorder, it appears that eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) has 'come of age' as a psychological therapy on a par with cognitive behavioural therapy or psychodynamic psychotherapy. However we still do not know how it works. And should it really be used for the treatment of other disorders as varied as depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and psychosis?

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Robin Logie

Logie, R. (2014). EMDR—more than just a therapy for PTSD. The Psychologist, 27(7), 512-517.