EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:body sensations and emdr
· 09/24/03 at 9:25 ET
If you google DNMS you'll find the website. As for my opinion of it, I have posted repeatedly here on the subject, beginning in mid July. A summary: DNMS, basically, is a huge ego state interweave. Since it purports to be it's OWN protocol... to be used entirely separately and religiously -- apart from the standard protocol -- it thus offers a complex interweave to all EMDR clients, from moment go. An interweave is information offered, by the therapist, to the client, to help looping stop. Looping is when a client gets "stuck" in a memory, sensation or belief and processing -- which usually proceeds spontaneously -- stalls. DNMS assumes that EMDR will be uncomfortable and/or dangerous to all clients. One might equate it to someone wearing a down parka in Sept in New York City, in case it snows. It might, it's not unheard of, but it is unlikely and wouldn't a windbreaker suffice, in any case? DNMS is also "marketed" as a treatment for dissociative disorders (DID, etc). However, it's efficacy with such disorders is, at best, anecdotal. So you have therapists being taught that an untested, new technique is adequate to treat a highly fragile group of clients. That is a prescription for therapeutic disaster, as my own experience bears out. If you have further questions, I would happy to try to answer them.
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