Re:looping

I can't speak to this specific case because obviously I don't know the client and her system, her strengths, her fragility, but I will make some general comments.

EMDR should not be conducted on highly dissociative people without careful preparation according to an established protocol for dissociative clients.

EMDR should not be conducted on dissociative clients for the first time right before the therapist leaves town.
In a crisis situation, if person is flooded with memories now that dissociative barriers have been brought down by EMDR, several things can be tried: safe place, grounding techniques. If there is a postive resource team inside the self that knows how to calm things down, they should step forward and "tuck in" the kids. This may or not apply in this specific case - again I don't know. This is a general comment only.

The following is always true: if efforts to ground and contain traumatic emotional material fail and a person is feeling suicidal and that they can't be sure they can control themselves or keep themselves safe, the client should go to the emergency room.
Any therapist who sees him/herself in this case story, in the sense of having participated in the premature dissolution of dissociative barriers, should seek consultation in the use of treatment of dissociative clients.

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