too associative

My therapist has decided that I am too associative to do EMDR at this time. Just plain old talk therapy drowned me for years with several different therapists (the longer I was in therapy, the less well I functioned between sessions - careers and other things in life went down the tube left and right after I got into therapy). One memory tends to trigger another and another and another both in and out of session and I get flooded and overwhelmed. I have often wished to be able to shut the door on my past - I've wished I could dissociate. Things are going better in therapy than they have in the past and starting to move in positive directions in my life, but I'm wondering what thoughts you have on people being too associative to do EMDR safely. I don't recall ever seeing comments on this here.

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Re:too associative, by Sandra Paulsen PhD, 12/04/03

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