Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study (American Journal of Preventive Medicine)

Adverse Childhood Experiences Study describes the long-term relationship of childhood experiences to medical and public health problems.

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A controlled study of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disordered sexual assault victims (Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic)

Efficacy of EMDR compared to a no-treatment wait-list control in the treatment of PTSD in adult female sexual assault victims.

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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and spiritual unfolding (Journal of Transpersonal Psychology)

Psychospiritual topics discussed include EMDR and Vipassana meditation, heightened sense of well-being and self-awareness.

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EMDR: Rapid treatment of panic disorder (Psychiatry On-Line, 1996)

Example of EMDR for panic disorder details of a recent case with significant decrease in anticipatory anxiety within two sessions.

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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Its cautious use in the dissociative disorder (Dissociation)

Careful informed consent and the use of the dissociative table technique can allow EMDR to be used successfully in a dissociative patient.

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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is not hypnosis (Dissociation, 1995)

Letter to the editor arguing that EMDR and hypnosis are qualitatively different states of neurophysiological functioning.

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ABC News 20/20 – When All Else Fails

In this 20/20 segment from 1994, reporter Lynn Sherr interviews Francine Shapiro and several EMDR therapy clients describing the therapy.

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EMDR treatment of phobic symptoms in multiple personality disorder (Dissociation)

Two multiple personality disorder patients with severe, persistent phobias were successfully treated using EMDR.

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An Update on the Dissociative Experiences Scale (Dissociation)

Reviews that relate to the validity of the DES. A 2nd version of the DES, which is easier to score, is included as an appendix.

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A bioinformational theory of emotional imagery (Psychophysiology)

Theory of emotional imagery that conceives the image in the brain to be a conceptual network, controlling specific somatovisceral patterns.

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