Peer-Reviewed Archives

Treating spider phobics with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: A controlled study (Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapy)

The present study examined the efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in the treatment of spider phobic subjects.

Eye movement desensitisation: Past research, complexities, and future directions (Australian Psychologist)

This paper reviews the present state of knowledge (1996 publication) about the efficacy of EMDR therapy as a treatment, and identifies basic problems with much of the research.

Controlled study of treatment of PTSD using EMDR in an HMO setting (Psychotherapy)

Clients who received EMDR treatment for their PTSD used fewer medication appointments and needed fewer psychotherapy appointments.

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.

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.

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.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) as treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy)

Commentary on EMDR therapy literature from scientific and clinical experience.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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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