Re:Observations through experience of EMDR and how I have adapted this to my work.

There are now a great many studies on EMDR, which either use, or purport to use, the original protocol. I don't know of studies on variations per se except for case reports, such as Sandra Foster PhD's case report in the Journal of Consulting Psychology on the use of EMDR for performance enhancement, which is a future oriented protocol and therefore varies from the original.

The name you are trying to think of in Canada is probably Maureen Kitchur, who has a great workshop that is a variant on the original model only in that it strategically formulates the overall treatment plan in the context of developmental phases.

Andrew Leeds approach using resource development, which also drew on the work of earlier workers including Landry Wildwind, has not been published to my knowledge, though he does workshops.

I varied the original protocol to accommodate an ego state approach, both for the dissociative client and the not-particularly dissociative client. That approach has been adapted rather widely in certain EMDR circles, and is at the heart of certain other adaptations, including the resource development approach as taught by Roy Kiesling and the chemotion approach talk by John Omaha. There is no research on any of these adaptations that I know of.

I think there is still enough work to be done using the basic protocol to keep researchers busy for a while, including dismantling studies.

Interested readers may wish to review the website of the EMDR Institute which has a literature review. It is somewhat dated at this juncture.

The Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58(1), 77-97, 2002 has an article entitled "A Critical Evaluation of Current Views Regarding Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Clarifying Points of Confusion". The article was written by Byron Perkins, PsyD and Curtis Rouanzoin, PhD. It has a long list of citations of studies which will be more current that the Institute website is I believe.

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