Posted by Morc on January 2, 2000, at 12:27:11
In reply to Re: "repression", posted by Elizabeth on November 17, 1999, at 2:29:50
> Not necessary. I would not base my opinion of a therapy (a drug, a talking therapy, or a new-age therapy like EMDR) exclusively on my own experience of it, but on well-designed clinical studies, or in the absence of such studies, on the existence of well-documented case reports.
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> At this time there is no evidence that the eye-hand movement aspect of EMDR has any therpaeutic eeffect, nor is there a plausible theoretical basis for it.Hi, Elizabeth.
Can you pass on the locations of some of those clinical studies you refer to above? I just finished reading "EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy" by Francine Shapiro and Margot Forrest, and am feeling pretty convinced of its validity, at least enough to give it a try.
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