Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in adults with serious mental illness within forensic and rehabilitation services: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (Trials)

EMDR for PTSD in people with serious mental illness in either forensic, mental health inpatient, or custodial settings.

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Effectiveness of trauma-focused treatment for adolescents with major depressive disorder (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

First study suggesting that EMDR therapy is associated with significant reduction of symptoms in adolescents with major depressive disorder.

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Active duty and ex-serving military personnel with post-traumatic stress disorder treated with psychological therapies: systematic review and meta-analysis (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

Review to determine which psychological therapies are efficacious in treating active duty and ex-serving military personnel with PTSD.

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Do early interventions prevent PTSD? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the safety and efficacy of early interventions after sexual assault (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

Findings suggest that early interventions can lead to durable effects on PTSD severity after sexual assault.

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The efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in individuals diagnosed with either C-PTSD or PTSD (Northcentral University, 2019)

AIP research lacks a distinction in efficacy rates with C-PTSD compared to PTSD complicated by high failure & drop-out rates for C-PTSD.

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Dropout from psychological therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults: systematic review and meta-analysis (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

Dropout rates from recommended psychological therapies for PTSD are high and this appears to be true of interventions with a trauma focus.

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Successful treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder reverses DNA methylation marks (Molecular Psychiatry)

This study investigated longitudinal changes of blood-based genome-wide DNA methylation levels in relation to trauma-focused psychotherapy for PTSD in soldiers.

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Psychological interventions for individuals bereaved by homicide: A systematic review (Trauma Violence Abuse)

Homicide-related mental health difficulties show an increased risk of PTSD, complicated grief (CG), and depression.

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Addiction as dissociation model (The Institute for Creative Mindfulness)

Regardless of your adopted stance on addiction this model of addiction as dissociation will likely be relevant to your practice.

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Too cautious or not cautious enough: Thoughts on the need for dissociation training for EMDR therapists (The Institute for Creative Mindfulness)

The author contends there are two opposite issues with EMDR therapists and dissociation: too cautious or not cautious enough.

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The predictive processing model of EMDR (Frontiers in Psychology)

This article describes the Predictive Processing model of EMDR, a proposed neurobiological mechanism/model that expands on the AIP model.

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Behandlung psychosomatischer Störungen – Psychotherapie mit Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

EMDR hat sich wissenschaftlich für die Behandlung posttraumatischer Belastungsstörungen bewährt, während die Behandlung von psychosomatischen Störungen ein neueres Einsatzgebiet darstellt.

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