EMDR Therapy

A technical and detailed manual on EMDR therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, it introduces the theoretical basis, explains the scientific roots and possible developments and guides the psychotherapist step by step in its application. EMDR therapy offers clinicians the necessary tools to structure an intervention plan, conduct the sessions and set the different phases of treatment.  It also proposes a protocol on parenting, designed specifically for therapists who deal with symptomatology in childhood.

EMDR Therapy, adopted by an ever-increasing number of psychotherapists around the world and based on the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, is an evidence-based therapeutic method that allows the processing of traumatic memories stored in a dysfunctional way in the internal memory system.

Following traumatic events, the individual’s personality can shatter into dissociative parts, disconnected from each other and not integrated with the consciousness, which hold back all the pain experienced at the time of the trauma. This can result in various psychopathological disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, somatization or extreme stress disorder, among others. Thanks to the desensitization and reworking of the traumatic memory, EMDR relieves emotional suffering, allows the reformulation of negative beliefs and reduces the patient’s physiological arousal.