Emergent traumatic material

Another distortion of my words and position that you introduced, is to say that I go after repressed memories. I do not. I am very careful not to suggest or imply that we seek to find repressed memories, or even that what EMDR uncovers is necessarily a memory.

Rather, what I reported is that I observed a client who spontaneously, during EMDR, became aware of emergent material (affect, body sensations, knowledge) related to a trauma. Quite different that what you said I said. What you said that I said would be of great concern, if it were true that I did it. Therapists must never lead clients to expect to find trauma or uncover memories. In your haste and zeal (and rhetoric, since you introduced that word) you are operating under your own bias of which you do not seem aware. Please be careful to neither distort my words nor my meaning.

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Re:Emergent traumatic material, by , 02/12/01 Re:Emergent traumatic material, by Cynthia Byrtus, 04/13/01 Who are you?, by Diane, 02/14/02

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