Treating Trauma with EMDR: Healing from Our Nightmares

Treating Trauma with EMDR: Healing from Our Nightmares This video from NICABM features an interview with Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. describing EMDR therapy to treat…

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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (Guilford, 2013)

Wesselmann/Shapiro describe how eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy can help complex trauma in children & adolescents. 

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Healing the Caregiving System: Working With Parents Within a Comprehensive EMDR Treatment (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Excerpt from the book EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches With Children shows model to work with caregivers of children with complex trauma.

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EMDR therapy and adjunct approaches with children: Complex trauma, attachment, and dissociation (Springer, 2012)

First book to provide a wide range of step-by-step strategies for clinicians using EMDR therapy and adjunct approaches with children.

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EMDR and dissociation: the progressive approach (Amazon Imprint, 2012)

This book describes how to apply EMDR in severe cases: dissociative disorders, personality disorders and complex traumatization.

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Plasma brain-derived neurotrophic factor level may contribute to the therapeutic response to eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in complex post-traumatic stress disorder: A pilot study (Acta Neuropsychiatrica, 2012)

Investigating the relationship between plasma levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, nerve growth factor, and EMDR in complex PTSD.

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Dissociation of the Personality in Complex Trauma-Related Disorders and EMDR: Theoretical Considerations (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

EMDR may benefit from theories developed for dissociative disorders, such as the theory of structural dissociation of the personality (TSDP).

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EMDR and the Treatment of Complex PTSD: A Review (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Body of literature on the treatment of complex PTSD and chronically traumatized populations, with a focus on EMDR treatment and research.

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols: Special Populations (Springer, 2009)

This book focuses on applying EMDR scripted protocols to special populations, including children, couples, clients with C-PTSD, etc.

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On treatment with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing of chronic post-traumatic stress disorder in public transportation workers – A randomized controlled trial (Nordic Journal of Psychiatry)

This study aimed to determine the short-term efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in occupation-based PTSD.

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Treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Outcome is stable in 35-month follow-up (Psychiatry Research)

Subjects with chronic PTSD following occupational health hazards (train accidents or assault at work) were treated with 5 sessions of EMDR.

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EMDR Treatment of Distressful Experiences That Fail to Meet the Criteria for PTSD (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

This RCT investigated the effects of treatment of distressful experiences (or small “t” trauma) that fail to meet the criteria for PTSD.

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