Re:fast processing

Hmm...I am not sure what would have lead to the rapid processing for these particular clients.

I had not seen either client for a very long time, before beginning EMDR. I don't think it was anything specific to therapeutic relationship or rapport in these cases.

Neither client was particularly enthusiastic about the idea of EMDR prior to trying it. In fact, both felt that it sounded pretty weird and did not expect it to work at all.

For the one client, who I did 3-4 EMDR sessions with (the other has only had one, so far), I noticed the EMDR seemed to really get her talking. She was not very verbally expressive prior to the EMDR. She left out an awful lot of information/traumas during the assessment. When we did the first EMDR on one trauma, afterwards she suddenly mentioned this other trauma that was quite a huge one and was amazing to me that it just never got mentioned before. We processed that one, and the same happened again. She processed the traumas that would by any objective perspective seem far more severe and significant, just as rapidly as she processed the initial "little t" trauma.

It is an interesting question, what would cause some people to process more quickly than others.

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Re:fast processing, by , 08/28/03

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