EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:emdr and transference
Sandra Paulsen Inobe PhD · 07/13/02 at 1:07 PM ET
The following statements are general, and may not apply to any one particular client. With DID, generally a significant period of work is needed before EMDR is used. I'd want to know how much experience and training a therapist had with DID before embarking on a course of treatment and certainly before doing EMDR with that person. An EMDR therapist discussing the courseo f treatment for DID should be talking about a lot of other things, such as stabilization, containment, ego strengthening, skills building, and more, and least of all talking about abreactive trauma work with EMDR. That work is important but it comes later. And I still say intuition is there for a reason.
If a DID client launches into EMDR with a therapist the client doesn't really trust, the work will quickly pull up parts of self that are in charge of protection and safety, and parts of self that feel, for example, victimized, and it is off to a lousy start.
I'd want to know if the therapist was a member of ISSD, and whether their approach to treatment was consistent with that organization's guidelines. If it is not consistent, what are the differences. I'd want to know what EMDR protocol for dissociation was being used with EMDR and how it protects against flooding.
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