Re:eye movements

The standard and original EMDR protocol was developed to target negative experience (often traumatic memories, but sometimes just life experiences that had negative learning outcomes). That protocol is completed by "installing" a desired positive self-statement. Typically, that positive statement seemed remote at the beginning of the EMDR, but by the end of the session (or a series), the desired positive statement is experienced viscerally as true.

In the last years, protocols have been developed for using EMDR on positive targets as well. For example, Andrew Leeds, Ph.D., developed the Resource Installation protocol to help individuals to acquire the internal strengths, resources, and coping abilities that will lead to increased adaptive functioning and integration.

These special protocols (there are others, such as ego state therapy) cause us to redefine our expectations and understanding of what EMDR is and does. The controlled studies have been on the standard protocol with trauma. Only time and research will tell what the range and limits of EMDR are.

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