When Attachment Wounds Run Deep: EMDR Therapy in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

EMDRIA member Kimberly Wilder shares how EMDR therapy can address attachment trauma, emotional dysregulation, and relational patterns associated with borderline presentations.

The EMDR toolbox method: Expanding Jim Knipe’s work and enhancing the adaptive information processing model (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

This paper aims to introduce the EMDR toolbox method (ETM), which systematizes, extends, and further develops Knipe’s EMDR Toolbox into a comprehensive clinical framework.

EMDR, dissociation, and beyond: Reexamining and expanding the frame for impactful trauma treatment (Routledge, 2026)

This book delves deeply into the dissociative disorders’ literature, providing much-needed connectivity between two fields that are often at odds, and expanding possibilities for EMDR therapy case conceptualization.

Adapting and testing of DeprEnd EMDR therapy for major depressive disorder: A study protocol of mixed method randomized controlled trial (Trials)

This study has two aims: first to develop an adapted DeprEnd EMDR therapy protocol in Pakistan; second, to test its feasibility, relevance, and clinical effectiveness across in-person and online modalities.

Can EMDR Therapy Help Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) or Functional Non-Epileptic Seizures?

Dr. Cope addresses a popular question EMDR therapists ask about: using EMDR therapy with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). We learned PNES is an outdated term, replaced by functional/dissociative seizures, a potential symptom cluster that falls under functional neurological disorder (FND).

Healing the Fragmented Self: EMDR & Sand Tray Therapy for Complex Trauma and Dissociation

Ana M. Gomez, MC, LPC discusses sand tray-based therapy as transformative approach for individuals healing from complex trauma & dissociation.

Dissociative and traumatic experiences in people with eating disorders (Current Opinion in Psychiatry)

This review synthesizes existing literature on the prevalence, assessment, and treatment of dissociation, focusing on its manifestation in eating disorders and explores dissociation, its relationship with trauma, and its role in emotion regulation.

The role of dissociation in surviving severe, systemic bullying: A reflective narrative for EMDR therapists (and trauma-responsive clinicians serving LGBTQ+ folx) (Delaware Journal of Public Health)

This article will focus on how repetitive, systemic bullying often leads to complex trauma and dissociative experiences for survival, and how an integrative, culturally responsible therapeutic approach is necessary for EMDR trained therapists.

Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation – 60-item version (MID-60) (NovoPsych)

Clinically supported, 60-item version of the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation for use in assessing dissociative symptoms in adults.

In a UK sample, EMDR and other trauma therapists indicate beliefs in unconscious repression and dissociative amnesia (Memory)

This study provides data on UK mental health professionals’ beliefs about repression and dissociative amnesia and two dissociative trauma-related disorders, DID and PNES. 

Dissociation as a Key to the Treatment of Severe Eating Disorders

Learn to identify dissociative parts in eating disorders and apply EMDR therapy to address chronic, treatment-resistant cases and their underlying trauma.

EMDR for Caregivers of Children with Developmental Trauma and Dissociation

Discover how EMDR helps adoptive parents process trauma and strengthen bonds with children facing developmental trauma and dissociation.