Re: EMDR i wrote u before on my intergretion have more good news

I'm sitting in for Dr. Shapiro right now, and I'm sure she'll read your wonderful note when she has returned from her travels. Thanks for the update on your integration. Your note will give others courage I'm sure.

For the record and for other readers, at the risk of lapsing into technical jargon here, it is important to make a couple of points regarding EMDR and dissociative disorders.

1) The EMDR protocol for treating dissociative disorders is quite different than the usual EMDR protocol, as it involves substantial preparatory work in preparing the self-system, obtaining consent from relevant alters, establishing containment procedures, and so forth.

2) To prevent untoward results, each EMDR client should be screened for a dissociative disorder, which if present, should be treated with the dissociative protocol as published by myself in the journal Dissociation, 1995. See also Lazrove & Fine, 1996, and others.

3) EMDR is a divining rod for dissociation. EMDRs that get stuck or loop often do so around dissociative barriers, whether in DID patients or in non-dissociative disordered patients with ego-dystonic affective-laden material held out of awareness.

As the EMDR client above has plainly reported, EMDR can produce wonderful and profound changes toward healing and wholeness in highly dissociative individuals.

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