What psychological testing and neuroimaging tell us about the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (Journal of Anxiety Disorders)

Study on the pathophysiology and treatment of PTSD before/after EMDR through psychological testing, Rorschach Ink Blot, and neuroimaging.

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Efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Implications for behavior therapy (Behavior Therapy)

In this article, authors examine 17 recent studies on the effectiveness of EMDR and the conceptual analysis of its mechanisms of action.

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Eye-movements and visual imagery: A working memory approach to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (British Journal of Clinical Psychology)

Hypothesis that eye-movements reduce the vividness of distressing images by disrupting the visuospatial sketchpad (VSSP) of working memory.

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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: 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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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): A new kind of dreamwork? (Dreaming)

EMDR’s apparent similarity to dreaming and to therapeutic dreamwork is suggested as a possible key to understanding its underlying mechanism.

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