A Clinical Vignette: Resource Connection in EMDR Work With Children (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

This vignette describes a procedure for drawing on and strengthening a child’s resources in all phases of EMDR treatment.

Clinical Q&A: Getting Started with EMDR (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Question: I recently took the EMDR training, but I’m having trouble getting started with EMDR. What do you suggest?

Using eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to enhance treatment of couples (Journal of Marital and Family Therapy)

This article examines how EMDR therapy can enhance couples therapy.

Of sleep, memories and trauma (Nature Neuroscience)

Implications of memory during slow-wave sleep and potential uses for treating PTSD.

Reducing the vividness and emotional impact of distressing autobiographical memories: The importance of modality-specific interference (Memory)

This study shows that doing tasks that load the same type of working memory—eye movements for visual images, speaking for auditory images—reduces the vividness and emotional impact of those memories.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in the psychological treatment of trauma-based psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy)

A case study utilizing a non-controlled qualitative multiple revelatory case design, integrates EMDR into the psychological treatment of PNES patients with confirmed trauma experiences.

Effects of bilateral eye movements on gist based false recognition in the DRM paradigm (Brain and Cognition)

The effects of saccadic bilateral (horizontal) eye movements on gist based false recognition was investigated.

Utilization of EMDR in the treatment of sexual addiction: A case study (Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention)

EMDR as a specific intervention to help treat the issues of trauma in the etiology and treatment of sexual addiction.

Effects of EMDR on previously abused child molesters: Theoretical reviews and preliminary findings from Ricci, Clayton, and Shapiro (The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology)

Preliminary findings on using EMDR therapy to treat persistent deviant sexual interest in children from previously abused child molesters.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in the treatment of panic disorder with agoraphobia (Clinical Case Studies)

Case study using EMDR to address early traumatic events as well as the present stimuli that caused presentation of panic disorder with agoraphobia.

Responding to an identified need: A joint Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs training program in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) for clinicians providing trauma services (International Journal of Stress Management)

A training program for EMDR psychotherapy was implemented with personnel from federal departments to fill the need for PTSD interventions.

Handbook of EMDR and Family Therapy Processes (Wiley, 2007)

This book describes how therapists can combine EMDR’s information processing approach with family systems perspectives and therapy technique.