Research on EMDR and CBT

Hi. Various interesting issues have been raised re the interpretability of EMDR research. So why not do it right? How about a good controlled comparison study with adequate N, multiple therapists in each condition, good therapist training and adherence, relevant outcome measures and appropriate follow-up, credible competing treatments, and etc. Y'know, all the gold standards. And to top it off, what about co-investigators, and therapists, who are respectively identified as having allegiance to the different treatments in question

And I'm not sure about this part, but... What about an agreement, up front, that if one of the treatments should outperform the other, the proponent of the *losing* treatment would be lead author? This would imply and then demonstrate that the researchers' primary interest was science as opposed to "their treatment winning."

I would be pleased to be a co-investigator in such a study, especially (but not only) if it involved children and/or adolescents. Although I actually spend more time teaching CBT/Exposure than teaching EMDR, for this study, given my reputation, I would have to be the EMDR-identified party.
Any takers?

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Re:Research on EMDR and CBT, by an EMDR client, 11/24/02 Re:Research on EMDR and CBT, by Ricky Greenwald, 11/25/02

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