Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Francine Shapiro developed the therapeutic intervention called Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) in 1987. In the ten years prior to this work, Shapiro, a PhD in English Literature, took an interest in behavior therapy and when she was diagnosed with cancer, it was the impetus for her to focus on, “the interplay of mind and external stressors” (Shapiro, 2001). The foundation of EMDR and its use is firmly committed to the belief that clinicians must be properly trained and supervised in the methods, through programs offered worldwide to increase the rate of success with clients. EMDR has many components and a detailed structure, but in essence the premise insists that individuals early life experiences are integral in the formation…

This paper is a critical review of Dr. Sophia F. Dziegielewski and Pamela Wolfe article, “Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) as a Time-Limited Treatment Intervention for Body Image Disturbance and Self-Esteem: A Single Subject Case Study Design”. The article was first published in the first volume third edition of the Journal of Psychotherapy in Independent Practice in 2000. The purpose of the article was to provide evidence that eye movement desensitization and reprocessing…

Treatment #1 Treatment Method: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (E.M.D.R.) School of Thought/Perspective: Cognitive-Behavioral Application: Phase 1: Evaluate the client’s aptness to therapy and identify potential targets for E.M.D.R. Including but not limited to: distressing memories; current situations that produce emotional distress; similar events from the past. Stress is put on the growth of explicit skills and behaviors that will be required future situations; Goal: for…

BIAQ, which ranged from 0-94, meant more avoidance behaviors, which indicated more body image disturbances. After completing these two measures, the baseline period of 20 days began, during which Brandy kept a Daily Body Satisfaction Log. The log was used to rate on a scale of one to ten, one indicating body satisfaction and ten indicating boy dissatisfaction, how the subject felt right after all three daily meals. This log was developed by the researchers and kept throughout all 43 days of the…

Description of Research Any injury or damage to your brain can result in devastating motor or cognitive lost. The extent of this lost typically depends on the amount of damage caused and the point of injury. After receiving a brain injury, the most severe form of motor disability someone can have is Locked-in syndrome (LIS) (Pistoia et al., 2016). “It is the consequence of ventral brainstem damage as a result of vascular or traumatic lesions disconnecting corticospinal and corticobulbar…

For sure, each human being sleeps, each human being is able to see some dreams, but how many of us think why we have dreams? Why sometimes we can see something really good and peaceful or conversely sometimes we have nightmares? Dreams are not just a part of our usual sleep; dreams which we can see and remember have scientific meaning too. Firs of all, what is a dream? Dream is a sequence of our ideas, imagination, emotions and sensations in the mind which we have during different stages of…

awakenings, and even the nightmares? A dream is a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep (Dream). Dreams are a great wonder to the world that scientists still do not have a firm grasp on. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader of what dreams are and what they mean. A person’s mind creates images and stories while we sleep and that is what a dream is. Dreams can seem very real and can make a person feel scared, happy, or sad. Dreams can…

Many believe that these so-called lucid dreams are just brief arousals from the sleeping state to what we know as a day dream. The main argument against lucid dreaming is that everyone who admits having accomplished reaching this state, were awake the whole time. Before recent technology, you could only believe what you were told by a test subject, and there was no way to tell if they were just laying down or actually in REM sleep. LaBerge has done an excellent job providing us with the ability…

The movie Inside Out presented Riley’s dream after she entered the REM stage while she was sleeping. It was actually inaccurate at the part where Riley entered to REM stage immediately after she fell asleep since people had to go through the non-REM stages(sleep stages 1-4) before they entered REM stage. However, Inside Out did a good job to show what was happening in Riley’s brain when she was dreaming in her REM stage. For example, there was one section in her brain called “Dream productions”,…

Dreams are vivid, strange fantasies that occur in the resting minds. Often most people are so consumed in their dreams that they cannot differentiate if the dream is real or not. People often tell themselves that there is only one reality, but there are many realities. Dreams are proof of this; people can walk, eat, run, and do anything they please in their dream. That makes dreams another reality where people can live. The reality of the world is that it can be barbarous and unpleasant. Dreams…