EMDR Forum Archive, 1999
Re: Lying--An common EMDR problem?
Robert P. O'Brien, Ph.D. · 4/28/00 at 12:00 am ET
Wow, I thought we were beyond this. First, EMDR Training is explicit. It is stated in every Level I training (the initial three day training open only to licensed mental health professionals who are interested in learning EMDR) EMDR is NEVER to be considered a means of searching for lost or repressed memories. NEVER is EMDR to be described or used for this purpose. The training includes at least one case in which a patient describes a memory that might be "suspicious" of abuse, but which turns out to be an important memory but clearly not abuse. The case is used to illustrate the pitfalls of thinking that EMDR is a means to recover memories. Training ALWAYS includes the clear point that memories that emerge during EMDR may not be facutally valid and one should never EVER assume that repressed memories have been recovered during EMDR. To make this allagation is perhaps the best evidence yet that you are unfamiliar with EMDR and EMDR training. No one who has read the material or attended any of the training would have any doubt about the inappropriatness of thinking of EMDR as a memory recovery tool. Second. Please before you make the charge that EMDR therapist find EMDR to be applicable to all clinical problems, review the work of Beck, Ellis etc and the miriad of cognitive behavioral therapist who would and do suggest that cognitive behavioral theory explains everything from depression to PTSD to violence/aggression and marital unhappiness (there are major books explaining how cognitive behavioral theorists apply and explain each of these). Bob
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