Recent Articles on EMDR

This regular column appears in each quarterly issue of the EMDRIA Newsletter. It lists citations, abstracts, and preprint/reprint information (when available) on all EMDR related journal articles. The listings include peer reviewed research reports and case studies directly related to EMDR (whether favorable or not), including original studies, review articles and meta-analyses accepted for publication or that have appeared in the previous six months in scholarly journals. Authors and others aware of articles accepted for publication are invited to submit pre-press or reprint information. Listings in this column will exclude: published comments and most letters to the editor, non-peer Note: a comprehensive listing of all published journal articles related to EMDR from 2003 and prior years can be found on David Baldwin's award winning web site at: ! Abstract ! EMDR is a method used to help the individual trauma victim process the psychological aftereffects of trauma (PTSD). The effects of traumatic experiences, however, spread throughout the victim's family. The case presented here describes the treatment from three perspectives: individual, family, and social context (eco-social). EMDR, used with a nine-year-old stabbing victim, was integrated into wider therapeutic work within the family. This integration widened the focus from the IP to other members of the system, allowing the use of EMDR to " spread " to four out of the five family members. The effects of the trauma on the family and its members were most effectively treated by a combination of individually and systemically oriented interventions. Corrigan, F. M. (2004). Psychotherapy as assisted homeostasis: activation of emotional processing mediated by the anterior cingulate cortex. ! Abstract ! Although psychotherapy is successful in altering emotional distress, the biological mechanism by which it achieves this has not been the subject of intensive neurobiological investigation. Mindful processing of emotion has been proposed [Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, The Guilford Press, New York, 2002] to be a key factor in prevention of relapse in depressive illness and here that hypothesis is developed and extended to include other conditions in which emotion processing may be obstructed or dysregulated. Cognitive therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, psycho-dynamic psychotherapy and dialectical behaviour therapy, each in a different way and with a distinct emphasis, encourage awareness of emotions and their associated cognitions and biographies, and their varying success may depend on the degree to which they achieve activation of internal healing processes. In eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), the selected …