Highlights on the state of the art of EMDR therapy

A recent paper by Dominguez and Lee (2017) discussed several methodological and statistical errors made by the American Psychological Association (APA) in defining Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) efficacy for PTSD as weaker than cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), cognitive processing therapy (CPT), cognitive therapy (CT) and exposure therapy. In this commentary, starting from the study of Dominguez and Lee (2017) we are going to express our position and state that the limits which make the results on EMDR treatment efficacy controversial are not merely methodological and statistical but, rather, theoretical.

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English

Alessandro Musetti
Barbara Magnani

Musetti, A., & Magnani, B. (2018, June). Highlights on the state of the art of EMDR therapy. Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 24(2), 189-196