Running head: Efficacy of Eye Movement Integration Efficacy of Eye Movement Integration Therapy: A novel therapy for rapid, ecological integration of traumatic memories
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To incorporate multisensory information into the healing process, we offered a novel therapy, Eye Movement Integration (EMI), to traumatized clients who had already undergone other treatments without resolution. EMI, developed by Connirae and Steve Andreas, is based on the principle that eye movements that are naturally associated with accessing sensory, cognitive and affective information can be guided externally to facilitate the integration of traumatic memories. Two pilot studies of EMI are presented: the effect of a single session on trauma-related symptoms and the effect of a complete course. We found that EMI, in a single session, resulted in an overall improvement in self-reported trauma-related symptoms of 48.33%, while treatment to subjective resolution resulted in an overall improvement of 83.30%.
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