Re: EMDR AND SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION/PRE MATURE EJACULATION?

Eric, I hope that the others who work in this area will also respond, but in case they don't see your post, I'm offering a reply in general, not specific to premature ejaculation.

With EMDR, the gains made remain as long as the relevant material was accessed during the processing. It is not so much that the message stays in the unconscious, as that the inhibitions or fears are actually gone, resolved, kaput.

When you do have an opportunity to "check the work" you accomplished in EMDR, think of it as an opportunity to see if any small portion of fear remains for followup EMDR. I say this because for any performance anxiety (sexual or not), there is a chain of behaviors involved. EMDRs addressing that performance anxiety need to neutralize all the pieces of the behavior chain.

So even if there is a little bit of anxiety left, I'd carefully document the cognitions, behaviors, affect, body sensations associated with that remaining piece of the process. Think of that specific data you log as pure gold to be taken in again for a tad more processing through EMDR on that focal piece.

Congratulations on what you've accomplished.

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