Re:Bilateral stimulation

Not sure where "TMJ" gets his information but there are several distortions here -- I have time to respond to a few, and refer readers back to prior archives on these subjects, where you can review very similar postings under the name "Brian". We'll be deleting postings that recycle prior discussions should they continue.

Distortion 1: The absolutistic language of your first sentence distorts the research and clinical findings to date. By no means is it "clear for those who practice EMDR"....that "bilateral stimuation is completely unnecessary". Research is early, methodology in this area has been shaky, and findings are uncertain at this time. Most clinicians who use EMDR and are accustomed to producing very good results with it find that the bilateral stimulation adds something important.

Distortion 2: Dr. Shapiro's renaming EMD to EMDR had nothing to do with eye movements being unnecessary - it had to do, rather, with recognizing that it was more than desensitization but also a cognitive reprocessing, often spontaneous, that could be observed in EMDR's effects.

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