Re:emdr and long term ptsd

PTSD of all stripes are treatable with EMDR; people are urged to be evaluated for a dissociative disorder first tho if the trauma was very early and very sustained, and especially if the perpetrators were the very people to which the child was most attached.

If you review this site, you'll find many discussions of such cases. Physical violence in particular tends to produce a different set of defenses than emotional abuse or sexual abuse, to a degree. Survivors of physical violence hold alot of guardedness in the body, and its often challenging to get past the walls in the minds eye to the vulnerable feelings of pain and sadness. Trust is often an issue. All this can be surmounted with most clients, based on clinical experience (no research on this exact point re EMDR).

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