Self-healing aspects of EMDR: The therapeutic change process and perspectives of integrated psychotherapies

Authors Jamie Zabukovec, PsyD., Steve Lazrove, M.D., and Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. discuss self-healing using EMDR from the perspectives of other psychotherapeutic approaches to understand the contribution of EMDR.

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“Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) (Shapiro 1989a, 1989b, 1995) is an innovative, comprehensive approach to psychotherapy. While EMDR’s use of eye movements has attracted a great deal of attention, the efficacy of the EMDR method can be explained parsimoniously in terms of many different types of therapy. Lang’s (1985) information processing networks provide a way to understand the Accelerated Information Processing model proposed by Shapiro to explain EMDR. A representative EMDR session is presented to illustrate the integrative components of EMDR’s procedural elements and the range of clinical effects. Therapeutic changes seen as a result of self-healing using EMDR are discussed from the perspectives of other psychotherapeutic approaches in order to understand the contribution of EMDR to the psychotherapy integration movement.”

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Zabukovec, J., Lazrove, S., & Shapiro, F. (2000). Self-healing aspects of EMDR: The therapeutic change process and perspectives of integrated psychotherapies. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 10(2), 189-206. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009400317083

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“Journal of Psychotherapy Integration primarily publishes original peer-reviewed papers consistent with five major pathways associated with psychotherapy integration.”

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