Comment on Point 4

Regarding the claim that a single 60-minute session was clearly inadequate to test EMD, let?s once again consider the context in which the study was planned and executed. Specifically what did Shapiro (1989) say and do?

?However, unlike any other reports of the direct desensitization of high level traumas, the EMD treatment and delayed treatment produced a decrease of 1-5 SUDs units within the first 3 min and a complete desensitization in 10-40 min. The only subject who exceeded a 50-min session was the veteran (described in ?Results?) who was treated for three traumatic memories in 90 min? (p. 220).

?Therefore, the author is convinced that enough information has been given here to achieve complete desensitization of 75-80% of any individually treated trauma-related memory in a single 50-min session? (p. 221).

Replies:

Re:Comment on Point 4, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 10/24/02 Re:Comment on Point 4, by Cahill, 10/25/02

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