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An orienting response model of eye movement desensitization (Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)

Theoretical proposals evaluating the orienting response (OR) as a mechanism of action for EMDR therapy circa 1996.

EMDR is a method that appears to have successfully achieved such integration of cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic approaches.

Two claustrophobic subjects were treated with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) a treatment for induced anxiety disorders.

A case of a lesbian couple where both had a history of trauma. The couple is now using EMDR with an emphasis on developing of empathic skills.

This article outlines case studies that use EMDR as a tool to decrease job interview anxiety and enhance workplace performance.

Four Vietnam veterans diagnosed with PTSD were treated with 12 sessions of EMDR, targeting their combat memories.

Eye movement and expectancy variables were tested through one-hour sessions with 41 undergraduate subjects with test anxiety.

Participants receiving EMDR showed decreases in presenting complaints and in anxiety and increases in positive cognition.

Two spider phobics were first treated with Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and then received an exposure in vivo session.

We treated two medical phobic subjects with eye movement desensitization (EMD). Using detailed images of fear-related events.

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

EMDR’s apparent similarity to dreaming and to therapeutic dreamwork is suggested as a possible key to understanding its underlying mechanism.