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As said in Dr Shapiro's books and in all the EMDR trainings, therapists should be trained and experienced in the treatment of dissociative disorders if they are to treat DID folks with EMDR. The self systems of DIDs are very much more complex than other sexual abuse survivors.

Looping refers to when EMDR gets stuck and it can occur for several possible reasons:

1) the pain is too intense for, say, a child ego state to tolerate wtihout additional resources, which can be provided by several means including RDI, ego state therapy or hypnosis.

2) there is resistance from a part of the self that is still handling things the same way they always have so they block the EMDR because that's what they think they should do.

3) the front part of the self feels it must continue to "disown" the disturbing material.

4) the attachment/loyalty to the perpetrator is still high and processing the information feels intolerable.
5) and this one should really be first, because it is Dr SHapiro's view of the matter, and it subsumes most of 1-4, the client does not have at the moment of looping, access to the positive resource or information that would enable the material to process.

Replies:

Re: Looping, by Katieshouse, 03/09/04 Re: Looping, by Sandra Paulsen PhD, 03/09/04 Re: Looping, by ls, 03/10/04

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