EMDR Humanitarian Work: Providing Trainings in EMDR Therapy to African Clinicians (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
An overview concerning the developments of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy in a humanitarian context in Africa.
“Tackling trauma to overcome OCD resistance” (The TTOOR Florence trial): Efficacy of EMDR plus CBT versus CBT alone for inpatients with resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder. Protocol for a randomized comparative outcome trial (American Journal of Applied Psychology)
A randomized comparative outcome trial on inpatients with treatment-resistant OCD comparing EMDR+CBT to intensive brief CBT.
Healing Quest – Inner World: EMDR Therapy
In this Healing Quest video featuring Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., EMDR therapy is explained for the general public, with client examples.
Meta-analysis of psychological treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder in adult survivors of childhood abuse (Clinical Psychology Review)
This article compared trauma-focused treatments for PTSD to non-trauma-focused interventions for individuals and groups.
How eye movements in EMDR work: Changes in memory vividness and emotionality (Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
This study suggests that eye movements during memory recall can reduce the vividness and emotional impact of negative memories 24 hours later, helping to explain part of EMDR’s therapeutic effect.
Treating trauma in addiction with EMDR: A pilot study (Journal of Psychoactive Drugs)
Effects of standard EMDR protocol in chronically addicted patients. Reprocessing traumatic memories could lead to changes of symptoms.
Book Reviews Vol. 8, No. 3 (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Reviews of new EMDR titles by Alexander, Carvalho, Ecker, Ticic, Hulley, Goodyear-Brown, Grand, Hughes, Kindler, Cooper, Lansing, & Rubin.
The Effectiveness of EMDR in Reducing Psychological Distress in Survivors of Natural Disasters: A Review (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
The Humanitarian Assistance Programme has attempted to address mental health needs by providing EMDR to natural disaster survivors.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing as an Adjunctive Treatment of Unipolar Depression: A Controlled Study (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Patients with unipolar primary depression were treated with CBT or CBT & EMDR. Patients treated with adjunctive EMDR saw additional benefit.
The Effects of Bilateral Eye Movements on EEG Coherence When Recalling a Pleasant Memory (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Participants were exposed to bilateral eye movements during the contemplation of a positive memory and measured with electroencephalographies.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Treatment of Nightmares: A Case Report (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Client with depression and chronic nightmares was treated with EMDR and Luber’s (2010) protocol for nightmare processing.
Compassion-Focused EMDR (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Compassion-focused therapy was developed to help people where shame and self-criticism inhibited progress in therapy.
