Re:Power Study

Thank you for bringing this study to our attention Dr. Paulsen-Inobe.

A few questions/comments:

1. I believe that all readers would find it helpful if (after you actually read the article) you contrast it's methodology with Francine's suggested gold standards necessary to test EMDR. Remember that you previously made the statement that it was necessary for these criteria to be met before you could meaningfully interpret results. Therefore, it is important that we know, from your perspective, that these are in fact met so that we can interpret results. Also, make sure that include Foa and Meadows' gold standards to the comparison condition as well, to make sure it was a valid test of E+CR.

2. You state:

"I used to do exposure therapy and it was arduous and tortured. EMDR goes down easier, and so I prefer it."

First, because many clinicians and therapists who use the approach would not agree with your above analysis of exposure therapy, let me remind you that it could have been your delivery that was lacking which resulted in this experience.

If I wrote a statement such as: "I have used EMDR and I feel like a clown waving my fingers around and having the client laugh right out of the therapy room." What reply would you have for this?

Second, it is necessary to see if the differece in drop out rates was even statistically signficant. If not, it could very well be due to chance fluctuations that are not reliable differences even if they appear to be different--Stats 101 (I assume that if a significant difference was found that it would have been noted in the discussion of drop outs, which it wasn't.)

3. Note that the eye movement abstract was presented on this discussion board and your response, before even reading it (have you read it yet?), was that it was flawed and could be dismissed outright. Also note that you have presented another article abstract, which you admit to not reading, but appear to believe immediately in the validity of these results. What could possibly result in such different reactions to two piece of research that you have not even read fully? You can guess that my conclusion is that one favors EMDR, and the other doesn't. You appear to uncritically accept the one that supports your ideas, and dismiss the one that doesn't. I certainly would not dismiss this study before I could even evaluate it properly. But I think that this speaks for itself how relible the information people receive consistently on this discussion board is.

Replies:

Re:Power Study, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 10/24/02 Re:Power Study, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe PhD, 10/24/02 Re:Power Study, by Barbara Sanders, 10/24/02 Re:Power Study, by misssusscarecrow@yahoo.com, 10/24/02 Re:Power Study, by Barbara, 10/25/02 meditation, by missusscarecrow@yahoo.com, 10/25/02 Re:meditation, by Barbara, 10/25/02 Re:meditation, by missusscarecrow@yahoo.com, 10/25/02

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