Re:Retelling the Story

Not maddening at all, actually. I think you're quite helpful overall.

A comment - only one right now -- on your comment which follows. You said:

"In your post, you describe a number of seperate events that might be part of a single overall trauma. Some of the examples you give are things that we would include as part of the trauma imagery. For example, we might very well include both the accident and the ambulence ride to the hospital following the accident in the same trial of imagery. So the difference in that case is simply whether you conduct treatment on different parts of the event as part of a single memory or as seperate memories targeted sequentially."

Yes, in EMDR too, those separate events may all come up as part of the processing of EMDR, or they may come up on another day. The course of the EMDR is determined by what comes to the patient's mind. This is because its considered important to allow the client's own information processing organization to determine the flow.

(I know I know, that doesn't mean its necessary). But it is most interesting, that when one allows whatever needs to come up to come up via what amounts to free association (GASP!) the client typically associates to earlier experience. Now you've got to admit that is interesting. Come on Puffer, admit it. Being from UH, I took a jaundiced behavioral view of free association until I repeatedly saw this effect emerge, and lots of SUDS go to zero when the earlier associations were recognized and processed.

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