Re:EMDR and Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder should be treated with medication as appropriate. There are no studies on EMDR and bipolar disorder or mood disorders of any kind that I am aware of.

Having said that, some of us observe clinically that for a few patients, including those that carry a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, EMDR enables accessing one pole of a mood state, or causes a shift from one mood state to another. In some cases, these mood states are actually ego states and the diagnosis might have more appropriately been a dissociative disorder.

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Re:EMDR and Bipolar disorder, by PJC, 05/02/01 Re:EMDR and Bipolar disorder, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 05/02/01

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