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• EMDR and affect theory by Andrew Stone, 1/27/97
  • Tell us more by Don Nathanson, 1/28/97
    
    

What prompted me to write was seeing a note from Jonathan Speare when he joined the emdr on line discussion, saying that he was also interested in Tomkins' work. When I contacted him directly, he told me he'd already spoken with Marilyn Luber and Elaine Alvarez about the connections between the two evolving fields of interest. I think affect theory offers emdr a language and a schema for looking at how affect works. The reason EMDR therapists need to know this is that EMDR in turn offers affect theorists an amazing window into process. Scripts, coassemblies, unmodulated pure affects, all get their turns to be revealed as the therapy progresses. It's a very different therapeutic stance than many of us are accustomed to, but worth adding to the repertoire.

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