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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

The Breakthrough ‘Eye Movement’ Therapy for overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Trauma.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is an exciting new therapy, which was discovered almost accidentally by Francine Shapiro Ph.D. In this spellbinding book she presents case after case of people whose lives have been transformed after treatment with EMDR, sometimes after only a single session. This is a book you won’t want to put down, and when you’ve finished it I can guarantee you’ll want to learn more about EMDR. Although techniques for using EMDR are described in this book, is strongly recommended that only clinicians with thorough training in EMDR should use it. The author admits that she is not certain why it works but it seems likely that events with strong emotional content are normally processed during REM sleep, and patients with post traumatic stress disorder may have been deprived of nature’s way of ‘working things through’. EMDR simulates REM to a certain degree and this could be responsible for the rapid recovery reported by subjects. This book is modestly priced and a must for anyone interested in psychotherapy.

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Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is a major new discovery in psychotherapy which can successfully treat psychological problems and illnesses, from depression, phobias, recurring nightmares, post traumatic stress disorders, grief, and many more conditions.

EMDR works by mimicking the eye movements made during REM sleep.  Research has established a link between Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep and a variety of psychological disorders.  REM sleep and the four stages of non-REM sleep continue in 90 minute cycles throughout the sleep period, however the length of time proportionally devoted to REM sleep appears to lengthen as the night goes on.  When people are deprived of REM sleep certain adverse reactions occur, for example irritability, anxiety and disorientation.  It seems that dreams are so necessary that if we are deprived of sleep then this will be compensated for on subsequent nights.  It is thought that trauma victims may awaken during periods of REM sleep, causing them to become caught up in a cycle of sleep deprivation and anxiety.

It is believed that mammals process survival information during the REM state and that during REM sleep, whatever an animal has experienced during the day is synthesized and stored in the memory in order to help it to survive in the future.  This suggests that sleep helps us to integrate the material.  When sleep is interrupted due to traumatic thoughts then nightmares may occur.

Another parallel between the two states is time distortion.  REM states last between 20 and 60 minutes at a time, yet a dreamer can feel as though they have lived through a whole day or more’s experiences.  Processing occurs quickly with EMDR and numerous events can unfold with each ‘set’.

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