Comparison of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, cognitive behavioral writing therapy, and wait-list in pediatric posttraumatic stress disorder following single-incident trauma: a multicenter randomized clinical trial (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)

EMDR and Cognitive Behavior Writing Therapy yielded equally large remission rates for PTSD in children and adolescents.

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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Trauma-centered psychotherapy in patients with refugee background (Psychotherapeut)

Intercultural trauma-centered psychotherapy using EMDR with professionally trained interpreter in refugee and asylum seeker patients.

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Meta-Analysis of Trauma-Focused Therapies for Treating the Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (American Counseling Association)

Meta-analysis of 46 studies published between 1997 and 2015 comparing trauma-focused therapies for the treatment of PTSD.

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Exploring expectation effects in EMDR: Does prior treatment knowledge affect the degrading effects of eye movements on memories? (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

Study designed to test whether expectations about the working mechanism of EMDR would alter the memory attenuating effects of eye movements.

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Bilateral alternating auditory stimulations facilitate fear extinction and retrieval (Frontiers in Psychology)

An animal model of fear recovery showed that BLS facilitate fear extinction and fear extinction retrieval, can this work in humans too?

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Le protocole EMDR standard pour la dépendance à l’alcool et à d’autres substances psychoactives en comorbidité avec un état de stress post-traumatique : quatre cas avec un suivi après 12 mois (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Ce compte-rendu commence par un résumé de la littérature concernant les modèles théoriques qui soustendent la relation comorbide entre l’état…

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Idealización y afecto positivo disfuncional: Terapia EMDR para mujeres que sienten ambivalencia con respecto a dejar a una pareja abusiva (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Después de asegurarse de que haya seguridad, el tratamiento de las víctimas de violencia interpersonal (VIP) suele centrarse en las…

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EMDR Integrated With Relationship Therapies for Complex Traumatized Children: An Evaluation and Two Case Studies (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

This case series investigated the value of integrating EMDR and relationship therapies for children with histories of complex trauma.

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Intensive EMDR to Treat Patients With Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Case Series (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

There is mounting evidence suggesting that increasing the frequency of EMDR treatment sessions, PTSD treatment outcomes significantly improve.

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Preliminary Evidence for the Treatment of Performance Blocks in Sport: The Efficacy of EMDR With Graded Exposure (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Using EMDR with performance problems in sport where athletes suddenly lose the ability to execute automatic movements.

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A Dialectical Perspective on the Adaptive Information Processing Model and EMDR Therapy (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

This article proposes a dialectical perspective on the adaptive information processing (AIP) model with application to EMDR therapy.

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Neural correlates of psychotherapeutic treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic literature review (Frontiers in Psychiatry)

This paper reviews gold standard psychotherapeutic approaches for PTSD treatment, specifically examining underlying neurobiological correlates.

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