Idealization and Maladaptive Positive Emotion: EMDR Therapy for Women Who Are Ambivalent About Leaving an Abusive Partner (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Treatment of victims of intimate partner violence is typically focused on adverse and traumatizing experiences and related negative emotions.
Read MoreEMDR Interventions in Addiction (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Authors discuss potential of EMDR therapy to aid addiction treatment. Two approaches are distinguished: trauma-focused and addiction-focused.
Read MoreEMDR Therapy Reduces Intense Treatment-Resistant Cravings in a Case of Gamma-Hydroxybutyric Acid Addiction (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
This article presents the first experiences of using EMDR therapy to aid in the treatment of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) dependency.
Read MoreClinical practice guideline for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults (American Psychological Association)
Guideline for the treatment of PTSD published by the American Psychological Association.
Read MoreThe OptiMUM-study: EMDR therapy in pregnant women with posttraumatic stress disorder after previous childbirth and pregnant women with fear of childbirth: design of a multicentre randomized controlled trial (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)
This study is the first RCT studying efficacy and safety of EMDR in pregnant women with PTSD after childbirth or Fear of Childbirth.
Read MoreEye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR) (Springer, 2017)
This chapter describes eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) as a trauma psychotherapy approach for children & adolescents.
Read MoreEMDR in anorexia nervosa: From a theoretical framework to the treatment guidelines (InTech, 2017)
Results suggest that EMDR allows an active reprocessing of traumatic memories related to family dynamics and to eating behaviors.
Read MoreA case of Asperger syndrome with comorbidity of posttraumatic stress disorder and selective mutism: Significant remission with the combination of aripiprazole and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology)
Letter to the editors regarding selective mutism, Asperger’s, comorbidity, challenges in diagnosis and EMDR therapy.
Read MoreMorphovolumetric changes after EMDR treatment in drug-naïve PTSD patients (Rivista Di Psichiatria)
We administered the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) and conducted brain MRI measurements (with Optimized Voxel-Based Morphometry).
Read MoreRestoration of emotional control ability in PTSD following symptom amelioration by EMDR therapy (European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation)
How the ability to control for emotional responses is altered in PTSD and it can be restored after EMDR treatment suppressing core symptoms.
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