EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:question about eye movements
J.W. · 09/06/03 at 1:11 PM ET
I found it interesting that you consider what I'm doing to be like the containment imagery you use and that that is a cousin of hypnosis because I have long considered myself to be unhypnotizable (a psychologist once tried to hypnotize me to help me with panic attacks, and I did not respond at all to what he was doing). On the other hand, I had a very hard time focusing on his voice because I found its timbre very grating, so perhaps that is why what he did, did not work for me. I am confused still by your saying that you don't use EMDR for containment. One EMDR person I went to a number of times was planning on using bls while doing resource development, safe place, etc. with me prior to doing any trauma work. If EMDR is by nature associative, wouldn't using it for these sorts of things open the floodgates to trauma as well? Or by saying that EMDR is associative, do you simply mean that it is associative when used in connection with traumatic memories? That is, is it associative in a different way when used for preparing the way for trauma work? (I never got to find this out with this person because I cut bait as we were about to start the prep work -- I realized no amount of bls was ever going to allow me to feel safe with this particular person.) Thanks. - J.W.
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