EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:Physical reactions
Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD · 02/12/01 at 3:03 ET
This client has it more accurately than the apparent professional above, who is hiding behind anonymity and has made some leaps and distortions, some of which I'll point out here: 1) This anonymous professional appears to be quoting me in the use of the phrase "repressed memories" -- but I did not use the phrase -- never do. I talked about dissociated memories. 2) Dissociated memories, contrary to the jaundiced views of this writer and the flawed research of Loftus (almost all of which is on a non-clinical population, not a trauma population) exist. Interested readers may find a wealth of information on this subject at www.issd.org - the International Society for the Study of Dissociation, or the website and publications of Colin Ross (Ross Institute) or Richard Kluft or others who have courageously documented what those of us in this field know -- Dissociation exists. 3) Dissociation is a category of disorders in the DSM-IV. Why would it be there if it doesn't exist? 4) Though this person is talking as if they are a scientist, it is not scientific to deny reality. If there were no occurrences of unresolved traumatic material coming to awareness in the course of EMDR or other triggers, there wouldn't be PTSD literature, there wouldn't be survivor forums, there wouldn't be 40,000 professionals trained around the world in EMDR. People in universities contribute mightily to science, but their measurements, instrumentation, theoretical formulations and certainly clinical experience and subject populations can be woefully off point. This creates error. 5) If there was no dissociation, this forum wouldn't be full of anecdotal material from clients who report dissociative phenomena. Enough for now.
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