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1. Cohen, S. (2000). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): The making of a psychotherapy. McGill University (Canada). AAT MQ64135.
Language: English
Format: Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract:
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (ENDR) therapy has burst upon the
psychotherapeutic scene as a tirne-limited, cost-contained, and efficacious treatrnent for anxiety,
stress, and psychological trauma. Although this therapy has been pronounced as revolutionary
by its inventor, Franche Shapiro, it has distinct historicd precedents. The explanatory models of
pathogenic memory and dissociation îheory, and the reiiance on mechanical inference for
objectivity rnake EMDR therapy famiIiar and salieut. Notions of suggestion and hypnosis, aud
the eye-movement component of therapy are presented as discontinuous with clinical and
theoreticai practice, in order to fiee them h m the tainting associations of pseudo-science and
quackery. By co~ect ingth e curent EMDR movement with the conceptual and practical history
of traumatic memory, dissociation, and suggestion, 1 argue that EMDR is not revolutionary. It is
a powerful technotogy of the self, nomaking and valourking certain ways of behaving and
thinking. Shapiro's implicit assurnptions that psychological suffering is pathological, and that
early traumatic events are indelibly encoded, stored and dissociated in the brain are
problematized. A briefcornmentary on the mord, politicai, and psychotherapeutic implications
of EMDR therapy is provided.
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2. Brodeur, E. (1995). Heaven’s barbecue. EMDR Network Newsletter, 5(1), 2-3.
Language: English
Format: Newsletter
Abstract:
The client is a 27-year-old woman
known to me from her first psychiatric
hospitalization 2 1/2 years ago,
during which she was diagnosed with
Major Depression with psychotic features.
She also had dissociative syrnptoms
including well-defined "parts,"
though she did not experience time
loss. She had tried about 20 different
psychoactive medications prior to her
first EMDR session, and had also received
outpatient electroconvulsive
therapy (ECT) 18 months earlier.
During ECT, she maintained a
straight-A average in her course work
to obtain a second degree in nursing.
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