EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION AND REPROCESSING (EMDR) THERAPY

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Have you heard of EMDR therapy? Although this therapy comes from the United States, more and more psychologists use it in many countries, since most psychologists are aware that when trauma exists, there is a disconnection between the past and the present, between emotions and cognition. This rupture makes conventional therapeutic approaches difficult, making talking or bringing up old emotions not only not effective, but sometimes it can even make the patient more sensitive. Explaining trauma is not enough. So a Californian psychologist began working on a revolutionary technique called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). It all started in 1987, while Francine Shapiro, a Senior Researcher at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, was taking a walk in the park. Then she realized that the thoughts that disturbed her had disappeared, and, later, when they returned, they no longer bothered her as before. Paying more attention, he realized that when a disturbing thought came to his mind, his eyes began to move quickly. Then she began to experiment, thinking about past experiences that still bothered her while moving her eyes. He then began applying the EMDR technique to his patients, to help them process traumatic memories. Its results were excellent since EMDR allows you to work with the trauma by reprocessing it to leave behind painful emotions. Sensitization and processing by eye movement (EMDR) is a therapeutic approach based on the adaptive information processing (API) model. From the point of view of this integrative psychotherapeutic approach, dysfunctionally stored memories are considered the primary basis of clinical pathology. Processing these memories and their integration into larger adaptive networks of memories allows you to transform them and restore the functioning of the system. Over the past 25 years, a sufficient number of clinical trials of EMDR therapy have been conducted, which has led to the widespread recognition of this approach for the effective treatment of mental trauma. EMDR is an integrative psychotherapeutic approach, the procedural elements of which are well combined with most other types of psychotherapy. Therapy is developed on the basis of the IPA model, which emphasizes the role of the information processing system of our brain for the development of both healthy human functioning and pathology. In the framework of the IPA model, insufficiently processed memories of uncomfortable or traumatic experiences are considered as the primary source of any psychopathology not caused by organic disorders. Processing these memories will solve the problem by restoring the system and assimilating these memories into larger adaptive networks of memories. EMDR is an 8-phase therapy that includes a three-part protocol that focuses on: ¿ the memories behind the current problems, 7 ¿ situations in the present and triggers with which it is necessary to work separately in order to bring the client to a stable state of psychological health, ¿ and also on the integration of positive scenarios of recollection for more adaptive behavior in the future. One of the hallmarks of EMDR is the use of bilateral stimulation, in particular sideto-side eye movements, alternate tapping on the knees, or alternate auditory stimulation, which is used in standardized procedures and protocols to work with all aspects of the memory network selected as a target.