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EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: a trauma therapy in which the patient recalls a memory while moving their eyes from side to side. Recommended as a first-line PTSD treatment; whether the eye movements themselves do anything is still argued about.

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Who Everyone FSFrancine Shapiro 4 SAScott Alexander 3 AWAnnie Wright 2 ASArielle Schwartz 2 SMScott D. Miller 1
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  1. AW

    Annie Wright quoted

    Licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and executive coach

    Our readingEMDR targets specific memories well but is not built for identity work or building a life narrative.

    Their wordsEMDR targets specific memories well. It’s not designed to be the primary vehicle for identity work or the slower work of building a coherent life narrative.

    ↗EMDR vs Talk Therapyanniewright.com

  3. AW

    Annie Wright quoted

    Our readingEMDR works best inside a broader therapeutic relationship, not as a standalone protocol.

    Psychotherapy

    Their wordsEMDR often accelerates the processing of specific memories inside a broader therapeutic relationship. I rarely run it as a standalone protocol without that container.

    ↗EMDR vs Talk Therapyanniewright.com

  4. 19 months earlier
  5. SM

    Scott D. Miller quoted

    Founder of the International Center for Clinical…

    Our readingA therapy is only shown to be more effective if it is compared against another treatment intended to help, not against a control nobody expected to work.

    PsychotherapyCBTdesign

    Their wordsIf one really wanted to know whether a treatment (e.g., CBT, IPT, ACT, EMDR) was more effective, it had to be directly compared to an approach intended to help - what Wampold and colleagues termed, a "bona fide" treatment. Doing otherwise, they argued, conflated artifacts of research design with actual research results.

    ↗Results from the first bona fide study of deliberate practicewritings.scottdmiller.com

  6. 2 years earlier
  7. SA

    Scott Alexander quoted

    Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten

    Our readingSomebody with trauma should try a trauma-focused therapy such as EMDR before treating their nightmares directly.

    PsychotherapyTrauma

    Their wordsI would recommend that anyone who thinks they're suffering from trauma (eg PTSD) try a trauma-focused therapy like EMDR before trying to address nightmares directly, unless the nightmares are overwhelmingly worse than all their other trauma symptoms.

    ↗Peer Review: Nightmaresastralcodexten.com

  8. 16 months earlier
  9. SA

    Scott Alexander quoted

    Our readingIf negative emotion comes from underweighting sensory evidence, that explains EMDR: it forces high-precision attention onto something the mind usually represses.

    Psychotherapy

    Their wordsFirst, it justifies various psychotherapies - EMDR and coherence therapy seem to come out especially well here - that focus on trying to get the brain to pay unusually precise attention, under unusually safe conditions, to something it usually represses.

    ↗The Precision Of Sensory Evidenceastralcodexten.com

  10. 15 months earlier
  11. SA

    Scott Alexander quoted

    Our readingEye movement reprocessing went from alternative to establishment, and moving your eyes while talking about a trauma does seem to help you process it.

    Trauma

    Their wordsEye movement directed reprocessing (alternative when the book was written, now basically establishment) where you move your eyes back and forth while talking about your trauma, and this seems to somehow help you process it better.

    ↗Book Review: The Body Keeps The Scoreslatestarcodex.com

  12. 2 years earlier
  13. AS

    by

    Arielle Schwartz quoted

    Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado

    Our readingHow EMDR works is still being discovered, and the proposed mechanisms are not mutually exclusive.

    PsychotherapyTrauma

    Their wordsthe field of neuroscience is still new; therefore, the physiological foundations of traumatic memories and how EMDR Therapy works are still in the process of being discovered.

    ↗How Does EMDR Therapy Work?drarielleschwartz.com

  14. 6 months earlier
  15. AS

    by

    Arielle Schwartz quoted

    Our readingWith complex trauma, EMDR needs resource development and careful pacing so clients feel safe in the present.

    PsychotherapyTrauma

    Their wordsTherapists must emphasize the importance of resource development and careful pacing of EMDR Therapy so that clients feel safe in the present moment.

    ↗EMDR Therapy for Complex PTSDdrarielleschwartz.com

  16. 3 years earlier
  17. FS

    Francine Shapiro quoted

    American psychologist (1948 to 2019) who originated eye…

    Our readingEMDR gives clinicians an efficient way to address psychological and physical symptoms stemming from adverse life experiences.

    Psychotherapy

    Their wordsEMDR therapy provides physicians and other clinicians with an efficient approach to address psychological and physiologic symptoms stemming from adverse life experiences.

    ↗The Role of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy in Medicine: Addressing the Psychological and Physical Symptoms Stemming from Adverse Life Experiencesdoi.org

  18. 3 years earlier
  19. FS

    Francine Shapiro quoted

    Our readingEMDR 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.

    ↗Episode 143: EMDR - An Interview with Founder Francine Shapiro (Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files)podcasts.apple.com 1st of 3 in this recording

  21. FS

    Francine Shapiro quoted

    Our readingThe 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

    ↗Episode 143: EMDR - An Interview with Founder Francine Shapiro (Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files)podcasts.apple.com 2nd of 3 in this recording

  23. FS

    Francine Shapiro quoted

    Our readingExposure therapy needs repeated or prolonged exposure for habituation, which is a different mechanism from EMDR.

    Psychotherapy

    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.

    ↗Episode 143: EMDR - An Interview with Founder Francine Shapiro (Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files)podcasts.apple.com 3rd of 3 in this recording