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.
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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) as treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy)
Commentary on EMDR therapy literature from scientific and clinical experience.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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An intensive design investigation of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing of claustrophobia (Journal of Anxiety Disorders)
Two claustrophobic subjects were treated with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) a treatment for induced anxiety disorders.
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