Self-Healing Aspects of EMDR: The Therapeutic Change Process and Perspectives of Integrated Psychotherapies

Jamie Zabukovec1, Steve Lazrove2, Francine Shapiro3
1VA North Texas Health Care System, Dallas
2Private Practice, New Haven
3Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) (Shapiro 1989a, 1989b, 1995) is an innovative, comprehensive approach to psychotherapy. While EMDR's use of eye movements has attracted a great deal of attention, the efficacy of the EMDR method can be explained parsimoniously in terms of many different types of therapy. Lang's (1985) information processing networks provide a way to understand the Accelerated Information Processing model proposed by Shapiro to explain EMDR. A representative EMDR session is presented to illustrate the integrative components of EMDR's procedural elements and the range of clinical effects. Therapeutic changes seen as a result of self-healing using EMDR are discussed from the perspectives of other psychotherapeutic approaches in order to understand the contribution of EMDR to the psychotherapy integration movement.

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