Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)1 integrates elements of many effective psychotherapies in structured protocols that are designed to maximize treatment effects. These include psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, experiential, and body-centered therapies2. EMDR is an information processing therapy and uses an eight phase approach.
During EMDR1 the client attends to past and present experiences in brief sequential doses while simultaneously focusing on an external stimulus. Then the client is instructed to let new material become the focus of the next set of dual attention. This sequence of dual attention and personal association is repeated many times in the session.
Eight Phases of Treatment
it's like having a guru wave an eraser on your mind
nothing is forgotten,
but the event becomes emotionally dulled, like, erased emotions
they say it's integrsating the mind, the better half heals,
i told him it's like he's sprinkling me with holy water
but the process is the pathway thru this ritualistic healing
that really works
in combo with cognitive work
and times out, man.
i keep growing by leaps and bounds
bought some tobacco yesterday
from a man who is planning on visiting lebanon with his lebanese wife
for the first time this fall
i told him about the large scale aerial bombing war
by israel
said i thought it was in excess
wished him a nice trip
he don't carry glass pipes
says the tv people were at his store
but i got a zig zag roller and papers, man
yes it was touching to cconnect with the young man's mother
very deep touching
the kind that wounds and heals
always healing
you gonna buy me a subscription to the scientific american, man?