Treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (Current Opinion in Psychiatry)
Further research on PTSD treatments needed.
Treatment of Vietnam war veterans with PTSD: A comparison of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, biofeedback, and relaxation training (Journal of Traumatic Stress)
An examination of self-report data from Vietnam veterans receiving inpatient treatment for PTSD compared treatment of EMDR, biofeedback, and relaxation training.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Its cautious use in the dissociative disorder (Dissociation)
Careful informed consent and the use of the dissociative table technique can allow EMDR to be used successfully in a dissociative patient.
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.
Eye movement desensitization: Three unusual cases (Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Three complex cases are presented on the applicability of eye movement desensitization (EMD) for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is not hypnosis (Dissociation, 1995)
Letter to the editor arguing that EMDR and hypnosis are qualitatively different states of neurophysiological functioning.
An orienting reflex/external inhibition model of EMDR and thought field therapy (Traumatology)
The clinical phenomena of the conduct of EMDR and Thought Field Therapy were interpreted within the concepts of classical conditioning.
A trial of eye movement desensitization compared to image habituation training and applied muscle relaxation in post-traumatic stress disorder (Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Imaginal exposure (image habituation training—IHT) vs. applied muscle relaxation (AMR) vs. eye movement desensitization (EMD) for PTSD.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for panic disorder: A case series (Journal of Anxiety Disorders)
After five sessions of EMDR, subjects reported a considerable decrease in the frequency of panic attacks, general anxiety, and more.
Effects of “eye movement desensitization” on emotional processing in normal subjects (Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy)
Case reports make claims for efficacy of “eye movement desensitization” (EMD) in treatment of traumatic memories. Is there evidence?
Eye movement desensitization across subjects: Subjective and physiological measures of treatment efficacy (Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
The results showed no significant decreases in SUDs level with the EMD minus the saccadic eye movements procedure.
ABC News 20/20 – When All Else Fails
In this 20/20 segment from 1994, reporter Lynn Sherr interviews Francine Shapiro and several EMDR therapy clients describing the therapy.
