A fifteen month follow-up of a study originally published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology has just appeared in the same journal. The researchers found that 84% of the subjects originally diagnosed with PTSD no longer retained the diagnosis after 3 EMDR sessions.
Wilson, S.A., Becker, L.A., & Tinker, R.H. (1997) Fifteen-month follow-up of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder and psychological trauma. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65, 1047-1056.