Translating Research into Practice – EMDR With Choking Phobia: Reflections on the 2008 Study by de Roos and de Jongh

Successful treatment of an adult client who presents with choking phobia and secondary depression using the EMDR protocol for phobias.

Article Abstract

“‘Translating Research Into Practice’ is a regular journal feature in which clinicians share clinical case examples that support, elaborate, or illustrate the results of a specific research study. Each column begins with the abstract of that study, followed by the clinician’s description of their own application of standard eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) procedures with the population or problem treated in the study. The column is edited by the EMDR Research Foundation with the goal of providing a link between research and practice and making research findings relevant in therapists’ day-to-day practices. In this issue’s column, Keith J. Myers references de Roos and de Jongh’s study, which investigated EMDR treatment of choking phobias. Illustrating the treatment considerations and treatment results reported by de Roos and de Jongh, Myers describes the successful treatment of an adult client who presents with choking phobia and secondary depression using the EMDR protocol for phobias. The case example is followed with a discussion of specific treatment considerations in the addressing phobias within the eight phases of EMDR therapy.”

—Description from publisher

Article Access

Open Access

Myers, K. J. (2015). Translating Research into Practice – EMDR With Choking Phobia: Reflections on the 2008 Study by de Roos and de Jongh. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 9(1), 64–70. https://doi.org/10.1891/1933-3196.9.1.64

About the Journal

The Journal of EMDR Practice and Research is a peer-reviewed publication devoted to integrative, state-of-the-art papers about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a broadly conceived interdisciplinary journal that stimulates and communicates research and theory about EMDR, and their application to clinical practice. The Journal of EMDR Practice and Research is the Official Publication of the EMDR International Association.