Re:bls/das

In my experience, abreactions and exposure simply uncontain the material, they don't destroy the "box". You can still cram it all back in, if you like.

EMDR does something to the "box".

One of those situations where my interests are so idiosyncratic there will probably never be anything but anecdote to explain the phenomenon.

I also wanted to say: lots of medicines and treatments are used because they WORK, not because there is an overwhelming body of research to support there use. Think of "off label" drug use. Sometimes, treatments, like echinacea, end up having a deleterious effect, when they are researched, and that comes as a surprise to many.

But EMDR has been researched and found to be effective. No one here has said "abandon all other ptsd/trauma treatments". So why the urge to topple the success of this therapy? Why does it offend? It is obvious, from posts such as my own, that EMDR helps many clients. I understand academic discussion, I am married to an academic -- my ears have been half talked off, over the years! But at times posts here have the feel of a civilized lynching, or attempt at one.

EMDR does good. It is of benefit. Certainly there should be an effort to modify and distill that benefit. But efforts to debunk the benefit, what's the use in that?!

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Re:bls/das, by Cahill, 10/28/02 Re:bls/das, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 10/29/02 Re:bls/das, by Cahill, 10/29/02

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