EMDR Forum Archive, 1999
Re: Reviewing the totality of the evidence against EMDR's claims
Robert P. O'Brien, Ph.D. · 2/19/00 at 5:19 pm ET
Brian and all, I find this quite interesting. The APA Division 12 people and the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies are certainly not particular supporters of EMDR. If anything, they are skeptical (a health factor actually) of EMDR, but included EMDR as an empirically validated treament modality along with CBT (for Division 12) and included it as a recommended treatment modality (for ISTSS. They did this dispite their skepticism because the data supported it. These conclusions are not findings of the EMDR Institute but of independent groups of psychologists (For APA) and a multi-disciplinary group of professionals for ISTSS. To my knowledge these groups (Am Psychological Assoc and International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies) are the only groups of experts who have subjected the literature to review and discussion and generated recommendations on treatment efficacy. They both concluded that there is substantive evidence that EMDR (along with other treatments)has been empericically validated. You are certainly welcome to your opinion and to express taht opinion here. But please don't present it as if it was representative of others who have reviewed the same literature. It is your opinion, but APA Division 12 and ISTSS don't agree with you. Unless, of course, you would claim better insight than the combined insightes of Division 12 of the American Psychological Association and the entire ISTSS. It may be true that EMDR supporters have a tendency to see data as supportive of EMDR. It is also likely that you have your biases that lead you to see the data differently. But I see little reason to discount the findings of the APA and ISTSS.
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