Re:Reply to the So-Called Debunking of EMDR: Alternate perspectives

Two points:

1) I ask that scholars and mental healthy professionals who post to this forum do us all the courtesy of posting their name. People can of course post anonymously, and the lay public is welcome to, but professionals who post anonymously look like they are hiding.

2) What continues to interest me is that the criticisms question whether there is an effect beyond exposure, but the clinician discussion groups are much more concerned with how to handle this power tool in a way that doesn't overwhelm the patient. That is, since clinically we see EMDR dissolve or penetrate dissociative barriers in its reassociative process, we have to be concerned with safety issues of preparation, containment, closure, and affect titration. EMDR practitioners talk about these issues a great deal. This is not the preoccupation you'd expect if this were a placebo, certainly, or just exposure. It would make an interesting study to analyze and compare the content of an exposure alone discussion group (of clinicians), and an EMDR discussion group, to see whether they both sound like people worried about safely using a power tool, or whether that is a feature of EMDR clinicians alone.

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