Re:Results with EMDR

First, thank you Cathy for sharing, what a wonderful, encouraging summation of your experience. For that I am grateful and wish you the best.

For the professionals here: Cathy remarks that her and her therapist's ability to "dialogue" during the EMDR was the important part. My question is what does one do if one is unable, literally, unable to speak? When the words are lost, or the throat closes, or one without words comes forward, when the "client" is absolutely unable to utter a word? Does the inability to speak diminish the affects of EMDR? Is "talking" an absolute in order to finalize processing?

I ask because it seems to be my case many times and since I don't think that EMDR is working as I think it should, I'm just wondering if perhaps the inability to tell what I'm feeling, seeing, thinking, what have you, is diminishing the possible affects of my EMDR therapy?

Perhaps I should ask my therapist, she may see it differently, although I don't think so. But I would appreciate thoughts from this forum as you are the experts per se, not that she isn't very qualified, another perspective I suppose would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your time and thoughts.

Prefer to be unknown if that is OK.......

Replies:

Re:Results with EMDR, by Robert P. O'Brfien, Ph.D., 08/08/00 Mute Looping During EMDR, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, Ph.D., 08/09/00 Re:Mute Looping During EMDR, by Cathy, 08/10/00 Re:Mute Looping During EMDR, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, Ph.D., 08/10/00 Re:Mute Looping During EMDR, by , 08/10/00 Re:Mute Looping During EMDR, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, Ph.D., 08/11/00 Re:Mute Looping During EMDR, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, Ph.D., 08/12/00

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