EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:Selective Mutism and agenisis of the corpus callosum
Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD · 09/22/00 at 11:42 PM ET
Re selective mutism: I have no experience with EMDR and selective mutism in children, and suspect other readers have. You may wish to also review the archives of this forum to see if the matter has been previously discussed. Re: Corpos Collosum agensis. This is an extremely exciting and fascinating question you pose, one that I discussed with Stanford Researcher Ian Wickstram, PhD. We spoke of how informative it might be to attempt EMDR with an individual with a corpus collosotomy --to help explain how EMDR has its effect, whether through the corpus collosum or other connections. I hope other readers have case material to share with you. This case could be a tremendous research opportunity. Sandra Paulsen, PhD
I don't know the age of your client, whether adult or child, but, in a variation on your question, I have treated some individuals, all adults, who had alter personalities who were mute. EMDR is very hard, but not impossible, to do with a mute client. One gets very good at asking true and false questions. The processing works without their talking about it much, but it is harder to do cognitive interweave, for a fact. In these cases, the mutism came as a result of being threatened with bodily harm or other dire result if they told of "secrets" (trauma that was also illegal and would have resulted in possible imprisonment or other punishment of the perpetrator had the victim spoken the truth). These alter personalities keep these secrets until they get the perspective, as a result of processing, that the threat of harm has passed, and that the threats were made to protect the perp/criminal.
Walnut Creek, California
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