Episode 143: EMDR - An Interview with Founder Francine Shapiro (Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files)

Francine Shapiro · 23m · podcasts.apple.com ↗

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EMDR is an eight-phase treatment that starts with history-taking to find the memories and current situations that need addressing.

Their wordsEMDR is an 8-phase treatment. We take a history to identify what specific memories need to be addressed.
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The eye movement in EMDR came from a chance observation, not a theory.

Their wordsthe eye movement came about, I want to emphasize, from chance observation
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Exposure therapy needs repeated or prolonged exposure for habituation, which is a different mechanism from EMDR.

Their wordsThe research on exposure therapy is very clear, as well as the theory underlying it, that you need to do repeated or prolonged exposures in order to allow habituation to take place.