EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:More conclusions from the new EMDR meta-analysis
Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD · 06/13/01 at 7:42 PM ET
I haven't yet seen the article, but wanted to respond with a couple of comments from the literature (not in front of me to site) that apparently aren't discussed here -- namely that clients find EMDR treatment to be more comfortable than traditional exposure treatment, from which the dropout rate is higher. I've done EMDR and I've done exposure, and EMDR is much easier to get clients to complete readily, so it is easier on client and therapist both.
I will never do standard exposure again as a result -- and why would I? Even if I accept the finding that there is no difference between EMDR and exposure, and I'm not saying I do, why would one give up using EMDR when it works well and more comfortably for all? The notion of EMDR as a single session treatment has not been put forward for a decade -- it has long been known and asserted by the EMDR Institute
that EMDR treatment can range from brief to lengthy, depending on the condition and the complexity of trauma history.
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