Re: Whether EMDR Therapists Act Appropriately

I am sure some therapists do not do the procedure the way they were trained. The EMDR training, however, does instruct EMDR practitioners to adopt a stance of therapeutic neutrality, and talks about distortions in memory.

By the way, one of the long-standing criticisms of EMDR is that it is some kind of training racket, because it requires lengthy training and has levels of certification. Some critics think the particulars could be just learned from journals or books.

All the many discussions on this list about how therapists need to do the EMDR carefully and according to a safe clinical protocol are precisely why Shapiro has made such a big deal out of training. There are many many things to cover to make sure that EMDR practitioners do a good and safe job with EMDR.

Once having trained clinicians, there is little else that Dr. Shapiro or the EMDR Institute can do. Once certified by the EMDRIA association, there is little EMDRIA can do.

In sum, both those organizations are committed to having the best practitioners out there. The fact that some people don't follow their training is not in any way unique to or reflective on EMDR as a procedure.

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Therapist Training, by Robert P. O'Brien, Ph.D., 5/3/00 Re: Therapist Training, by curious, 5/4/00 Re: Therapist Training, by Sandra Paulsen, Ph.D., 5/4/00 Re: Therapist Training, by The Contributor, 5/10/00 Re: Therapist Training, by Ricky Greenwald, 5/4/00 Re: Therapist Training, by anonamous, 5/15/00

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