Anxiety/Panic/Phobias Archives

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for panic disorder: A case series (Journal of Anxiety Disorders)

After five sessions of EMDR, subjects reported a considerable decrease in the frequency of panic attacks, general anxiety, and more.

Two multiple personality disorder patients with severe, persistent phobias were successfully treated using EMDR.

Statistics students with test anxiety were randomly assigned to EMD or control (finger tapping) to test if eye movement are critical.

Chapter describing EMDR as a treatment for anxiety and related trauma in the book Trauma victim: Theoretical and practical suggestions.

Case study showing a 21-year-old woman with injection and blood phobias who was treated successfully using eye movement desensitization.

Eye movement desensitization (EMD) and a control procedure–image confrontation (IC)–were compared in a group of 58 phobics.

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the recently developed Eye Movement Desensitization (EMD) procedure on traumatic memories.

Emotions are represented by information structures in memory; anxiety occurs when information structure to escape/avoid danger is activated.