Re:Comment on Point 3

One of the control groups in the Boudewyns & Hyer (1996) dismantling study provided all aspects of EMDR except that participants closed their eyes during the imagery periods (they called it an Exposure Control or EC condition). The results revealed that, compared to a third standard control treatment, both the EMDR and EC conditions resulted in redued physiological arousal to standard combat stimuli, trends toward reduced physiological arousal in response to the target trauma memory, sidnificant reductions in SUDS,and significant reductions on the Profile of Mood States. Now, was the EC condition also an eye movement condition? If so, what is added by having the therapist wave their fingers back and forth and having patients track them? If the EC condition is not an eye movement condition, then once again, the study fails to provide evidence for the eye movement hypothesis.

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