A therapist's guide to EMDR; tools and techniques for successful treatment.

9780393704815

A therapist's guide to EMDR EMDR Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing ; tools and techniques for successful treatment.

Parnell, Laurel.

W.W. Norton

2007

363 pages

$35.00

Hardcover

A Norton professional book

RC489

Emphasizing use in clinical situations, Parnell, a clinical psychologist, consultant, and EMDR trainer, discusses successful use of eye-movement desensitization desensitization
or hyposensitization

Treatment to eliminate allergic reactions (see allergy) by injecting increasing strengths of purified extracts of the substance that causes the reaction. and reprocessing Reprocessing may refer to:

Nuclear reprocessing
Recycling

techniques for treating trauma and phobic disorders phobic disorder Psychiatry A condition that causes extreme and irrational anxiety in particular situations, objects or activities. See Phobia. . Writing for EMDR-trained therapists and not beginners, she focuses on case formulation, ego strengthening, target development, and the ability to work with processing difficulties. She reviews its theoretical basis and procedural steps and covers preparation for trauma processing, including resource development and installation, and methods for unblocking blocked processing, such as the creative use of interweaves. A section on the EMDR session is provided, followed by a discussion of clinical applications. The book is meant to supplement Shapiro's Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing eye movement desensitization and reprocessing,
n psychophysiologic treatment that proposes to remove painful memories by providing a moving object for the eye to track while the therapist and patient use deconditioning therapy. Also called
EMDR. (2001). Material from Parnell's training workshops serves as a foundation for the book and some material from her volume EMDR in the Treatment of Adults Abused as Children is included.

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