EMDR and the energy therapies: Psychoanalytic perspectives

Phil Mollon demonstrates how the perspectives of EMDR, energy psychology, and psychoanalysis can inform and enrich each other

About the Book

“Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), along with methods from the new field of energy psychology, such as the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), enable the rapid processing and release of traumatic memories and painful emotion. In this innovative work, Phil Mollon demonstrates how the perspectives of EMDR, energy psychology, and psychoanalysis can inform and enrich each other. By summarising relevant research and providing many clinical examples, Mollon has produced a challenging and invigorating scrutiny of psychoanalysis and an expanded vision of the potential for psychosomatic healing.”

—Description from publisher

Table of Contents

1. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), emotional freedom techniques (EFT), and psychoanalysis
2. The waking dream: from Freud to EMDR
3. What happens during an EMDR or EFT session?
4. The abandonment of memory, trauma, and sexuality: the excessive preoccupation with “transference”, and other problems with contemporary psychoanalysis
5. Disintegration anxiety: the bedrock resistance to psychological change
6. EMDR treatment of a travel phobia with complex traumatic roots
7. Jane: EMDR and psychotherapy with a traumatized and abused woman
8. Brief case illustrations
9. Using EMDR and energy methods in practice
10. A comprehensive model of the psychosomatic matrix: towards quantum energy therapy
11. Research conclusions
12. Two therapists’ personal experiences

—Description from publisher

Book Access

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Mollon, P. (2004). EMDR and the energy therapies: Psychoanalytic perspectives. Routledge Publishing. https://www.routledge.com/EMDR-and-the-Energy-Therapies-Psychoanalytic-Perspectives/Mollon/p/book/9781855753761  

• ISBN 9781855753761