EMDR
(Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), is a psychotherapeutic method that can help you reduce the effects of experiences from the past that interfere with your everyday life.
Usually, these experiences are traumas of various kinds such as assault, abuse, accidents of natural disasters.
Even if a trauma has occurred
several months or even years ago, you can still feel its effects through so-called Post-traumatic Stress Disorder such as flashbacks, feeling emotionally overwhelmed, nightmares, anxiety, emotional distance, low self-esteem and other difficulties coping with living a normal life.
EMDR has also been used
to help people cope with anxiety and panic attacks, severe grief, reaction to physical disease and many other conditions where strong emotions are associated with major life experiences.
To date, EMDR’s effectiveness in treating conditions other than PTSD has not been proven by research.
Therapists that work with this method:
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The World breaks everyone and afterword
many are strong at the broken places.”
Hemingway
References:
Jon G. Allen : EMDR – A Closer Look
Barton Ross – Baron-Sorensen : Pet Loss and Human Emotion
– Video Manual. Sv. Övers. Kerstin Bergh Johannesson
Mark Dworkin : EMDR and the relational imperative
– The Therapeutic Relationship in EMDR Treatment
Elkhonon Goldberg : The Executive Brain
– Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind
Göran Högberg : Post – Traumatic Stress Disorder : Neurobiology and Effects of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing – avhandling 2008
Kerstin Bergh Johannesson : Traumatic Exposure, Bereavement and Recovery among Survivors and Relatives after Disasters – avhandling 2010
Joan Lovett : Small Wonders – Healing Childhood Trauma with EMDR
Barb Maiberger : EMDR Essentials – A Guide for Clients and Therapists
Laurel Parnell : Transforming Trauma – EMDR
Sandra Paulsen : Looking Through the Eyes of Trauma and Dissociation : An Illustrated guide for EMDR therapists and clients
Royle – Kerr : EMDR i klinisk praktik
Therese Rando : Treatment of Complicated Mourning
F. Shapiro : Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
F. Shapiro : GETTING PAST YOUR PAST
F. Shapiro & M. Forrest : EMDR – The Breakthrough
R. Shapiro Ed. : EMDR Solutions – Pathways to healing
R. Shapiro Ed. : EMDR Solutions II – For Depression, Eating Disorders, Performance, and More
Tinker & Wilson : Through the Eyes of a Child
– EMDR with Children
Judith Viorst : Necessary losses
