The effectiveness of components of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) was tested by randomly assigning 48 participants to either an eye movement or an eye stationary condition and to one of two types of therapist instructions (reliving or distancing). Participants were university students (mean age 23) who were asked to recall a personal distressing memory with measures of dis...

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a widely used treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. The idea behind EMDR that lateral eye movements may mitigate the emotional impact of traumatic memories. Given focus on changing patients' memories, it important practitioners have detailed knowledge about human memory. We explored beliefs ideas memory in samples (Study 1: n = 12; ...

Background: EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) is a structured psychotherapy method that facilitates the treatment of various psychopathologies problems related to both traumatic events more common but emotionally stressful experiences.1 Due confinement due COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) pandemic, people have developed mixture anticipatory anxiety, stress, tiredness, misu...

The purpose of this study was to conduct a randomized experimental evaluation of the effectiveness of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) by examining its ability to reduce trauma symptoms among adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. These survivors, who suffer a variety of symptoms that are persistent and at times debilitating, comprise a large target population for...

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) was one of the first treatments of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to be evaluated in controlled research and has to date been empirically supported by 13 such studies. This article reviews the historical context and empirical research of EMDR over the past dozen years. Historically, EMDR's name has caused confusion in that "desensitizat...

Recent practice guidelines and meta-analyses have designated eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) as a first-line treatment for trauma. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is an eight-phase therapeutic approach guided by an information-processing model that addresses the combat veteran's critical incidents, current triggers, and behaviors likely to prove useful in his ...

Abstract Francine Shapiro, the founder of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), reported that therapeutic use eye movement patterns was discovered by chance while walking in a park. An alternative accounting for origins EMDR comes from research demonstrates individuals are unable to perceive their own movements historical sources document Shapiro’s acceptance Neuro-Linguistic Pr...

Three experienced therapists, trained in hypnosis and EMDR, distilled some tentative hypotheses about the use of hypnosis in EMDR from fifteen cases, two presented here. When a therapist uses hypnosis with EMDR, it seems that the client is having difficulty or the therapist anticipates that the client will have difficulty managing the experiences processed with EMDR. Hypnosis initiated either d...