EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:question about eye movements
Sandra Paulsen Inobe PhD · 09/06/03 at 7:23 PM ET
Your questions are great - I wish there was some research on these subjects, but I don't know of any. Here's what I find clinically....and some of this is widely held by EMDR practitioners. For RDI we do a few short sets, same with safe place. In which case re are strengtheningn positive resources/accessing positive neural networks or ego states you could say. If we do more than a few, and if we do the sets fast, we are more likely to trip up traumatic material or negative material. So somewhere in there its associating to negative neural networks. When I refer to containment, I am referring to specific procedures that are used at the end of EMDR sessions, or for dissociative clients to teach them containment skills in general, to "tuck in" disturbing material. I do it using imagery of boxes with disturbing pictures or emotions put in them and put in a vault, then I tuck in the ego states on fluffy white clouds. But instead of leaving the client in trance, it leaves them far more alert and ready to drive and such than if I hadn't tucked in the material at the end of a deep session of work. The EMDR Institute has taught the Sufi method, the "light stream" approach to contain and soothe incomplete EMDR sessions. Doing EM or BLS during those containments procedures undoes the containment, rather it activates or energizes neural nets or ego states holding disturbing elements.
Some people do RDI primarily verbally, and some use imagery more extensively in RDI. Some say imagery is just imagery and some say it is light hypnosis. Some say hypnosis is dissociative, some say its not, or more correctly some say the chronic use of self hypnosis results in dissociative disorders.
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