EMDR therapy - Self-experience: Case report

The traumas experienced in the early phase of our lives, which we can label as traumas with a small "t", are carried throughout our whole lives without us unaware of how much they hinder us in everyday life. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapy that focuses on processing dysfunctionally stored memory, using bilateral brain stimulation, and reactivating the natural ability to functionally and adaptively process information (AIP) (Shapiro 2001, 2014). We are often not aware of why we feel uncomfortable at certain moments, we feel fear, we are dissatisfied, and so on. EMDR helps us in finding out why these things bother us, and it helps us to overcome these things and become functional in all areas of life (Ališahovi􀃼 and Hasanovi􀃼 2018). [Excerpt]

Journal

English

Dženita Hrvić
Mevludin Hasanović

Hrvić, D., & Hasanović, M. (2021, February). EMDR therapy - Self-experience: Case report. Psychiatria Danubina, 33(Supplement 1), 103-105