Re:Fractionation and EMDR?

Well, you get the prize for Most Important Question of the Year.

Very little is written on this subject - I refer you to the lovely article by Fine, CG, & Berkowitz, AS (2001). The wreathing protocol: The imbrication of hypnosis and EMDR in the treatment of dissociative identity disorder and other
maladaptive dissociative responses. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 43, 275-290.

Also, please review this forum, in a tedious way. Because people don't label their posts well, many gems are hooded by bad Subject titles, but we have talked about fractionation a number of times and ways.

In short, any means of titrating the intensity of affect, whether it be through a rheostat in the minds eye, a volume from a video library, a channel of BASK material, an alter's point of view, are all legitimate means of fractionating a memory. See also the chapter by Richard Kluft in Corydon Hammonds tome the Handbook of Hypnotic Suggestion and Metaphors for a panoply of fractionation possibilities.

The task boils down to keeping the intensity of affect in the functional range, between numbing and flooding, by any means that can be imagined.

Doing EMDR in a fractionated way is precisely like sewing a patchwork quilt. Each piece in its turn, comprising the whole. The tension must be just right, not too loose or the stitching becomes slopping, not too tight or the machine makes just loops. But just so, and the perfect tension enables perfect stitching, perfect processing, to an adaptive resolution or quilt.

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Re:Fractionation and EMDR?, by Teibe E., 10/25/03 Re:Fractionation and EMDR?, by Sandra Paulsen PhD, 10/25/03

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