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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Comment on Greenwald (1996): The assessment of fidelity to the EMDR treatment protocol (Professional Psychology: Research and Practice)

Van Ommeren recommends the formation of a panel that can assess whether or not the treatments used in EMDR outcome studies have fidelity.

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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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Errors of context and review of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing research (Journal of Behavior Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry)

Francine Shapiro discusses errors of context in her review of recent eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) research. 

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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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When the past is the present: A conversation about EMDR and the MRI interactional approach (Guilford, 1996)

Discusses using eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy with the Mental Research Institute (MRI) interactional approach. 

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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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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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