“The
body remembers everything.”
Willhelm
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EMDR
– Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
This psychotherapy treatment was developed by the American
Dr. Francine Shapiro over 15 years ago and integrates
elements of many effective psychotherapies including psycho-dynamic,
cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, experiential, and
body-centered therapies.
Painful experiences leave traces not only in our body
and soul but are also stored by our brain as pictures,
thoughts, sounds, smells, feelings, body sensations and
beliefs - in other words in our memory network and nervous
system.
EMDR facilitates accessing these stored memories and provides
an effective method to process and reformulate negative
beliefs and experiences as well as reducing or eliminating
the emotional reaction attached to the traumatic memory.
Therapist directed lateral eye movements, hand-tapping
or audio stimulation are the most commonly used external
stimulus. This stimulation provides an opening to the
memory network that stores the traumatic memory or events
responsible for dis-ease and problems. Once accessed,
this information can be processed and new associations
and understanding can take place with effective desensitisation
of the external and internal triggers.
Recent research has proven EMDR effective in the treatment
of acute and chronic trauma symptoms, indefinable fear
and panic reactions as well as fears related to performance,
travel, or animals. Guilt, shame, self-esteem, and addiction
issues are also some of the many areas that EMDR has been
successfully applied.
The method can significantly reduce the amount of time
required for therapy.
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