EMDR in treatment-resistant depression

EMDR is internationally recognized as one of the most effective tools to treat posttraumatic stress disorder (WHO 2013). Increasingly studies show that stressful life events play a major role in depressive disorders. In recent years therefore EMDR has come into focus as a new intervention tool in the treatment of depressive disorders and the specific protocol has been developed to work systematically with unipolar depressive disorders, the EMDR DeprEnd protocol. This protocol has been developed in the research that has been conducted by the European EDEN study group since 2007, and applied to at least 500 depressive patients using the EMDR DeprEnd protocol. The EMDR DeprEnd protocol focuses episode triggers (Criterion A or not), belief systems and psychological states related to depressive disorders. In the workshop protocol will be introduced and partly trained, parts of it in small group exercises. Also practical cases will be presented and, as time permits, discussed.

Conference

English

Arne Hofmann

Hofmann, A. (2020, January). EMDR in treatment-resistant depression. Preconference presentation at the 4th EMDR Asia International Conference, Bangkok, Thailand