EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:emdr for pain
Sandra Paulsen Inobe PhD · 05/15/03 at 7:01 PM ET
His approach is helpful, a kind of combination of behavioral pain management approach and what seems to me to be an ego state approach, where old unresolved somatically held material is accessed and processed via EMDR. His manual is helpful, though I wish it were organized differently. The model I use is to consider that somatic channels of neural networks can be dissociated just like the other ones. Accessing them can sometimes be directly using a standard EMDR target method, as illustrated in Grant's book. Sometimes however the cognitive means of accessing somatic material is too hard or remote. In such cases, I find an ego state approach is helpful for accessing. I've also combined it with bodywork such as reiki for accessing somatically held chronic pain. Think of the pain as the body's way of insisting that its needs and feelings are important, when they got stuffed at an earlier time. The abovfe discussion applies to pain that is entirely psychogenic or psychogenically amplified in cases of biological injury. Remember, the body's experience of pain, even from real external injuries, gets processed through the brain. Finally, I'd refer you to the hypnosis literature on transforming pain with imagery.
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