Terapia EMDR en el trastorno límite de personalidad [EMDR therapy in borderline personality disorder]

EMDR in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

Individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) usually experience significant impairment in their ability to function. Impulsivity, affect instability, interpersonal difficulties, and identity problems are hallmark features of this disorder, frequently leading to suicidal and parasuicidal behaviors. Although BPD has traditionally been considered chronic and enduring, recent re...

EMDR Therapy: Trauma Research

EMDR is recommended as an effective treatment for trauma. A position paper of the (Israeli) National Council for Mental Health: Guidelines for the assessment and professional intervention with terror victims in the hospital and in the community. Jerusalem, Israel. EMDR is one of three methods recommended for treatment of terror victims. According to a taskforce of the Clinical Division of the A...

Emdr Treatment of Phobic Symptoms in Multiple Personality Disorder

Two multiple personality disorder patients with severe, persistent phobias were treated usingEye Movement Desensitization/Reprocessing (EMDR). Both patients achieved significantly beneficial results with a single session in one patient and two sessions in another. Each patient confronted the previously phobic object successfully showing an objective measure of success and results were maintaine...

EMDR Therapy for Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses.

EMDR Works . .

[Headnote] Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a highly scrutinized but efficacious psychotherapy commonly used in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. Despite much theorizing and speculation, EMDR's mechanism of action remains unspecified. This article reviews several accounts of how EMDR works to reduce symptoms and/or aid memory reprocessing, including disrupti...