Redefining trauma and its hidden connections: Identifying and reprocessing the experiential contributors to a wide variety of disorders (Norton, 2013)

Francine Shapiro offers a psychotherapy model to heal trauma, through Adaptive Information Processing, EMDR therapy & therapeutic presence.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (Guilford, 2013)

Wesselmann/Shapiro describe how eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy can help complex trauma in children & adolescents. 

A New Journal Feature: Translating Research Into Practice (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Introducing a new journal feature—Translating Research into Practice (TRIP), a collaboration between JEMDR and the EMDR Research Foundation.

Treatment of Behavioral Addictions Utilizing the Feeling-State Addiction Protocol: A Multiple Baseline Study (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

New treatment for behavioral addictions using The Feeling-State Addiction Protocol (FSAP), based on theory of behavioral/substance addiction.

A Commentary on Hornsveld et al. (2011): A Valid Test of Resource Development and Installation? Absolutely Not (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Evidence supporting “working memory” & “REM/Orienting Response” hypotheses as mechanisms of treatment effects of EMDR on patients with PTSD.

Stop the Use of Eye Movements in Resource Development and Installation, Until Their Additional Value Has Been Proven: A Rejoinder to Leeds and Korn (2012) (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Response to Leeds & Korn, arguing study results are in line with mounting evidence supporting a working memory account for eye movements.

How to Use Fraser’s Dissociative Table Technique to Access and Work With Emotional Parts of the Personality (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Clinical Q&A. “Is there a process that is best used to identify ego states?” Fraser’s Dissociative Table Technique is explained.

EMDR With Grief: Reflections on Ginny Sprang’s 2001 Study (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

EMDR treatment of complicated grief and mourning. Case examples are followed with a comprehensive discussion.

Neural dysregulation in posttraumatic stress disorder: Evidence for disrupted equilibrium between salience and default mode brain networks (Psychosomatic Medicine)

Examining the neurobiology of PTSD.

What is the role of eye movements in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? A review (Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy)

Evidence was found suggesting bilateral stimulation increases access to episodic memories and that it could act on working memory.

EMDR therapy: An overview of its development and mechanisms of action (European Review of Applied Psychology)

This article examines the history and development of EMDR, from Dr. Francine Shapiro’s original discovery in 1987, to current findings and future directions for research and clinical practice.

EMDR Part Two: Clinical Opinions Regarding the Safety of using EMDR to Process Traumatic Material During a Subsequent Pregnancy to Treat PTSD (childbirth onset) (Lamaze)

Kathy Morelli shares the second part of her series on EMDR, and exams clinical opinions on the safety of EMDR as a treatment modality.