EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:EMDR for anxiety and phobias
· 10/03/01 at 8:13 PM ET
Hello "client," You raise important points and I will try to address the substantive questions briefly. "I note that two of your references refer to specific phobias found in children (in There is no reserach evidence that EMDR would work any better with adults with specific phobias as opposed to children. Also, it is probable that this work would be generalizable to other types of specific phobia. "I also note that the last The eye movements were delivered in the "bilateral" fashion in the study cited on public speaking anxiety to replicate the technique used in EMDR. I can see no other major unique element in EMDR that would, apart from the so-called "bilateral stimulation," make it different from other imaginal exposure based treatments. If you take out that stimulation and find no differences the conclusions should be obvious. Please refer to previous threads for more detailed discussion of this area.
both the phobia was related to spiders), can we reasonably say that because EMDR may not work for children in this
specific instance that it does not work for adults in other instances of anxiety and phobia."
reference relates to the eye movements themselves, a specific component of EMDR. It is already known that it is
bilateral stimulation, as opposed to actual eye movements, which is considered to be one important part of the process
of emdr. Simply adding eye movements to something is not likely to help, nor will simply adding bilateral stimulation."
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