Affect focused EMDR for childhood trauma
Description
Background and aims
This presentation will highlight the importance of working with core affect in EMDR. The aims are twofold: to help participants understand the natural fear of both patient and therapist to touch painful affect considered to be a consequence of childhood trauma, and conceptualizing ways to deal with this normal reaction. We will provide a road map to find the core affect, which needs to be treated with Dual Attention Bilateral Stimulation, using different entry points, of which memories are the most commonly used.
Methods
The theoretical explanations will be interspersed with case examples, some of which will be subtitled video clips.
Results
At the end of the presentation, EMDR therapists will be less fearful to touch painful affect and understand that the unbearable pain linked to childhood trauma can be accessed in different ways.
Conclusions
EMDR therapists will understand it is critical not to avoid the pain of childhood trauma, which needs to be treated if we want patients to have a lasting effect of our intervention. The presentation will have widened possibilities to identify and work with the core affect after relational trauma in childhood.
Abstract topic
Affect Focused EMDR for Adults with Childhood Trauma
This presentation will highlight the importance of working with core affect in EMDR. The aims are twofold: to help participants understand the natural fear of both patient and therapist to touch painful affect considered to be a consequence of childhood trauma, and conceptualizing ways to deal with this normal reaction. We will provide a road map to find the core affect, which needs to be treated with Dual Attention Bilateral Stimulation, using different entry points, of which memories are the most commonly used.
Methods
The theoretical explanations will be interspersed with case examples, some of which will be subtitled video clips.
Results
At the end of the presentation, EMDR therapists will be less fearful to touch painful affect and understand that the unbearable pain linked to childhood trauma can be accessed in different ways.
Conclusions
EMDR therapists will understand it is critical not to avoid the pain of childhood trauma, which needs to be treated if we want patients to have a lasting effect of our intervention. The presentation will have widened possibilities to identify and work with the core affect after relational trauma in childhood.
Abstract topic
Affect Focused EMDR for Adults with Childhood Trauma
Format
Conference
Language
English
Original Work Citation
Cornil, L., & van Limbergen, O. (2023, June). Affect focused EMDR for childhood trauma. Presentation at the EMDR Europe Conference, Bologna, Italy
Citation
“Affect focused EMDR for childhood trauma,” Francine Shapiro Library, accessed May 9, 2024, https://francineshapirolibrary.omeka.net/items/show/28211.