Re:emdr

Thanks for these informative and provocative posts.

It reminds me of something that I haven't said in a while, that the part of the art of EMDR involves finding a pace for the therapy that is tolerable for the client. We want to go faster than talk therapy for sure, but we don't want to go so fast that the client ends up feeling raw, like hamburger meat.

Sometimes people almost seem to get hooked on processing painful material. It can be punctuated with RDI sessions, or talk sessions, to integrate what has been processed. That leaves the client feeling more robust and less like a gutted fish. Therapists sometimes need to push back on clients leaning too heavily into the work, in fact. That occurrence is more rare than when the therapist pushes the client and the client, wanting to be a "good compliant patient" agrees to do more EMDR or more rapidly than may be beneficial.

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Re:emdr, by aikanae, 09/07/03 Re:emdr, by , 09/07/03

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