EMDR therapy: Integrating psychology and physiology in clinical practice

This presentation aims to more fully reveal the power and flexibility of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, by clearly relating the psychological understanding of what is happening in EMDR therapy to our emerging understanding of the physiology and neurobiology. In highly vulnerable clients, the sudden return of repressed affect (associated with the memories of particularly disturbing experiences) can overwhelm adaptive memory networks and require immediate and considered variation of the standard protocol. Taking a developmental perspective, I will demonstrate the integrity of the model across multiple paradigms, so EMDR therapists can prepare all clients for effective resourcing and reprocessing.

Conference

English

Darra Murphy

Murphy, D. (2017, August). EMDR therapy: Integrating psychology and physiology in clinical practice. Presentation at the 22nd EMDR International Association Conference, Bellevue, WA