Emotional processing during eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy of Vietnam veterans with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Results suggest that eye movements do not play a significant role in processing of traumatic information in EMDR.
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Pathological gambling: Etiologic considerations and treatment efficacy of eye movement desensitization/reprocessing (Journal of Gambling Studies)
Study of 22 subjects with Pathological Gambling (PG) tests theory that root of PG lies in unresolved trauma-related anxiety, similar to PTSD.
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Eye movement desensitization treatment utilizes the positive visceral element of the investigatory reflex to inhibit the memories of post-traumatic stress disorder: A theoretical analysis (British Journal of Psychiatry)
This paper argues that Pavlovian and Darwinian theory provide a theoretical explanation for the therapeutic effectiveness of EMDR.
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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Evaluation of controlled PTSD research (Journal of Behavior Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry)
Controlled PTSD research on eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) showing that EMDR is an empirically validated method.
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Errors of context and review of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing research (Journal of Behavior Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry)
Francine Shapiro discusses errors of context in her review of recent eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) research.
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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Effectiveness and autonomic correlates (Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
The relaxing effect of the eye movements suggests that a mechanisms operating during EMDR is desensitization by reciprocal inhibition.
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Measuring effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in non-clinical anxiety: A multi-subject, yoked-control design (Journal of Behavior Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry)
Twenty-eight subjects from a university with stress/trauma were selected to receive either EMDR or a visual (non-movement) placebo.
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When the past is the present: A conversation about EMDR and the MRI interactional approach (Guilford, 1996)
Discusses using eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy with the Mental Research Institute (MRI) interactional approach.
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A four activity model of psychotherapy and its relationship to eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and other methods of psychotherapy (Traumatology)
A four activity model of psychotherapy and its relationship to eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and other methods of psychotherapy This article, by Howard…
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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing with complex personality pathology: An integrative therapy (Journal of Psychotherapy Integration)
EMDR is a method that appears to have successfully achieved such integration of cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic approaches.
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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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