EMDR as an integrative psychotherapy approach: Experts of diverse orientations explore the paradigm prism

This book, edited by Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., explores how EMDR can be an integrative psychotherapy approach, with contributes from leading experts from diverse areas of psychotherapy.

About the Book

“In EMDR as an Integrative Psychotherapy Approach, EMDR originator Francine Shapiro explores the latest developments and theoretical perspectives on, and clinical implications of, this complex psychotherapy approach originally developed to treat posttraumatic stress disorder. Leading spokespersons of all major schools of psychotherapy explore how EMDR meshes with their approaches, identifying the elements and outcomes salient to their world view. They offer guidelines and techniques, amply illustrated, across a range of problems and disorders, including depression, attachment disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, body image disturbance, marital discord, and existential angst. From this diversity of viewpoints emerges a picture of similarities, differences, and strengths across disciplines and suggestions and opportunities for more robust and comprehensive treatment.”

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Paradigms, Processing, and Personality Development by Francine Shapiro
2. EMDR Treatment: Overview and Integration by Francine Shapiro
3. Beyond the Talking Cure: Somatic Experience and Subcortical Imprints in the Treatment of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk
4. The Developing Mind and the Resolution of Trauma: Some Ideas About Information Processing and an Interpersonal Neurobiology of Psychotherapy by Daniel J. Siegel
5. EMDR and Psychoanalysis by Paul L. Wachtel
6. EMDR and Cognitive–Behavior Therapy: Exploring Convergence and Divergence by Nancy J. Smyth and A. Desmond Poole
7. Combining EMDR and Schema-Focused Therapy: The Whole May Be Greater Than the Sum of the Parts by Jeffrey E. Young, William M. Zangwill, and Wendy E. Behary
8. EMDR: An Elegantly Concentrated Multimodal Procedure? by Clifford N. Lazarus and Arnold A. Lazarus
9. EMDR and Hypnosis by Stephen Gilligan
10. EMDR and Experiential Psychotherapy by Arthur C. Bohart and Leslie Greenberg
11. Feminist Therapy and EMDR: Theory Meets Practice by Laura S. Brown
12. EMDR in Conjunction With Family Systems Therapy by Florence W. Kaslow, A. Rodney Nurse, and Peggy Thompson
13. Transpersonal Psychology, Eastern Nondual Philosophy, and EMDR by Sheila Krystal, John J. Prendergast, Phyllis Krystal, Peter Fenner, Isaac Shapiro, and Kali Shapiro
14. Integration and EMDR by John C. Norcross and Francine Shapiro

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Shapiro, F. (Ed.). (2002). EMDR as an integrative psychotherapy approach: Experts of diverse orientations explore the paradigm prism. Washington DC: American Psychological Association. https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/431797A

ISBN: 978-1-55798-922-2

About the Editor

Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. (1948–2019) was the founder of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. A licensed psychologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Mental Research Institute (CA), she founded the EMDR Institute and encouraged the development EMDR International Association (EMDRIA). Dr. Shapiro authored many books and articles including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures in it’s 3rd edition in 2018, and Getting past your past: Take control of your life with self-help techniques from EMDR therapy (2012). She was a frequent presenter and teacher and won numerous awards including the California Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Achievement in Psychology Award in 1993 and the International Sigmund Freud Award for Psychotherapy in 2002.