Re: More Clarification

Meanwhile, while this debate goes on about whether EMDR's effect is real, spurious, placebo, cbt, etc etc, In the last two weeks several of my clients made dramatic progress through EMDR. An executive who has been depressed and full of self blame since his wife and child died in a motor vehicle accident 22 years ago had a two hour EMDR session at the end of which he felt purged and had a shift away from irrational self-blame to hope and a renewed commitment to living a meaningful life. A woman who had been through 15 years of psychodynamic therapy was able to make real progress through EMDR with strengthened images of hope and nurturing acceptance, with reduced feelings of abandonment that have been there since she was a very small child. A 24 year old with a four year history of a blood and injury phobia no longer faints when she gets a shot or a dental procedure, after two EMDR sessions. A 44 year old woman reports complete cessation of hypersensitivity to criticism following a long EMDR session on exposed feelings of devastation following a public criticism on the job. I have had, in the same two week time period in my practice no occurrences in which EMDR failed to cause a reduction in experienced distress. In one case of a Korean immigrant where language was an issue during the EMDR, there was partial relief after one EMDR session and continued processing is planned for next week. This is as expected when EMDR is conducted on a recent trauma (he was sued in the last few weeks, so the processing is different and more extended).

It is hard for me to get excited about the naysaying about the research that supports the use of EMDR that I see on this forum, when I am getting such robust results, consistent with what the research says. The truth is so evident, I am confident it will prevail.

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