Eye movement and desensitization and reprocessing By Francine Shapiro. New York: Guilford Publications, 1995, 398 pages, hardboud $40.00

✍ Scribed by Bessel A. Der Van Kolk

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 113 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490100316

✦ Synopsis

Close to 20,000 therapists world-wide have been trained in a revolutionary new method of psychotherapy called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Yet many therapists remain skeptical: after all, our profession regularly falls prey to extraordinary therapeutic claims of new fads and waving one's fingers in front of a patient hardly seems like a serious enterprise. Therefore, I was surprised to find, while working on a treatment outcome chapter for our new book on traumatic stress, that EMDR has been studied more often than any treatment save cognitive-behavioral therapy and that a substantial number of studies had yielded positive results. My curiosity was piqued further when several of