Orienting Reflex inhibiting fight or flight?

Dr. Shapiro,

I have found EMDR to be a helpful addition to my work with trauma survivors. I am not particularly convinced by the accellerated information processing theory, but I read an online paper in a Traumatology journal:

(at http://rdz.stjohns.edu/trauma/contents.html )

Traumatology-Volume 1, Issue 1, May 1995. "An Orienting Reflex/External Inhibition Model of EMDR and Thought Field Therapy" by Nathan R. Denny, Ph.D.

The idea is that the eye movements elicit the orienting reflex which interferes with the fight-or-flight response and allows the brain to process the material differently.

How does this fit with your understanding?

Replies:

An early theory limited in scope, by Francine Shapiro, 10/4/97 Additional theories of mechanisms, by Francine Shapiro, 10/5/97

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