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EMDR has been found to reduce suicidal ideation,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fereidouni |first1=Zhila |last2=Behnammoghadam |first2=Mohammad |last3=Jahanfar |first3=Abdolhadi |last4=Dehghan |first4=Azizallah |title=The Effect of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) on the severity of suicidal thoughts in patients with major depressive disorder: a randomized controlled trial |journal=Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment |date=August 2019 |volume=15 |pages=2459–2466 |doi=10.2147/NDT.S210757 |pmid=31695382 |pmc=6717728 }}</ref> and help low self-esteem.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Griffioen |first1=Brecht T. |last2=van der Vegt |first2=Anna A. |last3=de Groot |first3=Izaäk W. |last4=de Jongh |first4=Ad |title=The Effect of EMDR and CBT on Low Self-esteem in a General Psychiatric Population: A Randomized Controlled Trial |journal=Frontiers in Psychology |date=8 November 2017 |volume=8 |pages=1910 |doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01910 |pmid=29167649 |pmc=5682328 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Other studies focus on effectiveness in substance craving<ref name="Are addiction-related memories mall"/> and pain management.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tesarz |first1=Jonas |last2=Wicking |first2=Manon |last3=Bernardy |first3=Kathrin |last4=Seidler |first4=Günter H. |s2cid=213240106 |title=EMDR Therapy's Efficacy in the Treatment of Pain |journal=Journal of EMDR Practice and Research |date=1 November 2019 |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=337–344 |doi=10.1891/1933-3196.13.4.337 |doi-access=free }}</ref>


There is only weak evidence that EMDR might be of benefit in treating [[depression]].<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Carletto S, Malandrone F, Berchialla P, Oliva F, Colombi N, Hase M, Hofmann A, Ostacoli L |title=Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis |journal=Eur J Psychotraumatol |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=1894736 |date=April 2021 |pmid=33889310 |pmc=8043524 |doi=10.1080/20008198.2021.1894736 |url=}}</ref>
There is only weak evidence that EMDR might be of benefit in treating [[depression]].<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Carletto S, Malandrone F, Berchialla P, Oliva F, Colombi N, Hase M, Hofmann A, Ostacoli L |title=Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis |journal=Eur J Psychotraumatol |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=1894736 |date=April 2021 |pmid=33889310 |pmc=8043524 |doi=10.1080/20008198.2021.1894736 |url=}}</ref>

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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro in the 1980s that was originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). EMDR adds a number of non-scientific practices, like finger tapping, to exposure therapy and has been aggressively promoted for the treatment of PTSD. It has been characterized as a pseudoscience and is only as effective as its underlying therapeutic methods without EMDR's distinctive add-ons.[1][2]

The 2013 World Health Organization (WHO) practice guideline states that EMDR "is based on the idea that negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are the result of unprocessed memories. The treatment involves standardized procedures that include focusing simultaneously on spontaneous associations of traumatic images, thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations and bilateral stimulation that is most commonly in the form of repeated eye movements."[3]

EMDR is included in several evidence-based guidelines for the treatment of PTSD, with varying levels of recommendation and evidence (very low to moderate per WHO stress guidelines).[3][4][5]

Technique

EMDR adds a number of non-scientific practices to exposure therapy and is provided over the course of several sessions.[2]

Formal EMDR therapy consists of eight phases. The first phase includes history taking and treatment planning. The second phase includes preparation. The third phase is an assessment phase followed by the fourth phase of desensitization. Phases 5 and 6 involve installing positive cognitions and 'body scan"[clarification needed]. The last phase is the reevaluation phase.[3] EMDR is typically undertaken in a series of sessions with a trained therapist.[6] The number of sessions can vary depending on the progress made. A typical EMDR therapy session lasts from 60 to 90 minutes.[7]

Trauma and PTSD

The person being treated is asked to recall an image, phrase, and emotions that represent a level of distress related to a trigger while generating one of several types of bilateral sensory input, such as side-to-side eye movements or hand tapping.[8][4] The 2013 World Health Organization practice guideline says that "Like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with a trauma focus, EMDR aims to reduce subjective distress and strengthen adaptive beliefs related to the traumatic event. Unlike CBT with a trauma focus, EMDR does not involve (a) detailed descriptions of the event, (b) direct challenging of beliefs, (c) extended exposure or (d) homework."[3]

Excessive training

Shapiro has been criticized for repeatedly increasing the length and expense of training and certification, allegedly in response to the results of controlled trials that cast doubt on EMDR's efficacy.[9][10] This included requiring the completion of an EMDR training program in order to be qualified to administer EMDR properly after researchers using the initial written instructions found no difference between no-eye-movement control groups and EMDR-as-written experimental groups. Further changes in training requirements and/or the definition of EMDR included requiring level II training when researchers with level I training still found no difference between eye-movement experimental groups and no-eye-movement controls and deeming "alternate forms of bilateral stimulation" (such as finger-tapping) as variants of EMDR by the time a study found no difference between EMDR and a finger-tapping control group.[9] Such changes in definition and training for EMDR have been described as "ad hoc moves [made] when confronted by embarrassing data".[11]

Medical uses

EMDR is controversial within the psychological community.[12][13][14] It is used for trauma therapy and a number of other conditions.

Effectiveness

Unusually for interventions that are considered pseudoscientific, EMDR has been subject to a number of randomized controlled trials.[1] It has been called a purple hat therapy because any effectiveness stems from the underlying therapy, not from the therapy's distinctive features.[15]

There is some evidence EMDR can be as effective as trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) for treating PTSD. Concerns have been raised about the poor quality of EMDR research.[16][17] Client had mixed perceptions of the effectiveness of therapy they had receieved.[18]

Medical guidelines

The 2009 International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies practice guidelines categorized EMDR as an evidence-based level A treatment for PTSD in adults.[19] Other guidelines recommending EMDR therapy – as well as CBT and exposure therapy – for treating trauma have included NICE starting in 2005,[5][20][21] Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health in 2007,[22] the Dutch National Steering Committee Guidelines Mental Health and Care in 2003,[23][page needed] the American Psychiatric Association in 2004,[24] the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense in 2010,[25] SAMHSA in 2011,[26] the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies in 2009,[27][page needed] and the World Health Organization in 2013 (only for PTSD, not for acute stress treatment).[3] The American Psychological Association "conditionally recommends" EMDR for the treatment of PTSD.[28]

EMDR is included in a 2009 practice guideline for helping children who have experienced trauma.[19][page needed] EMDR is often cited as a component in the treatment of complex post-traumatic stress disorder.[29][page needed][30]

Mental health

It is unclear whether EMDR is of any benefit for treating mental health conditions and the evidence is insufficient to justify such use.[16]

Dissociative identity disorder

EMDR has been found to cause strong effects on dissociative identity disorder patients, causing recommendations for adjusted use.[31][32]

Other conditions

There is only weak evidence that EMDR might be of benefit in treating depression.[33]

Possible mechanisms

Incomplete processing of experiences in trauma

Many proposals of EMDR efficacy share an assumption that, as Shapiro posited, when a traumatic or very negative event occurs, information processing of the experience in memory may be incomplete. The trauma causes a disruption of normal adaptive information processing, which results in unprocessed information being dysfunctionally held in memory networks.[34] According to the 2013 World Health Organization practice guideline: "This therapy [EMDR] is based on the idea that negative thoughts, feelings and behaviours are the result of unprocessed memories."[3]

EMDR allowing correct processing of memories

EMDR is posited to help in the correct processing of the components of the contributing distressing memories.[35][36] EMDR may allow the client to access and reprocess negative memories (leading to decreased psychological arousal associated with the memory).[37] This is sometimes known as the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model.[38][39][unreliable medical source]

Proposed mechanisms by which EMDR achieves efficacy

The mechanism EMDR proposes are non science-based.[2] Several possible mechanisms have been posited;

  • EMDR may impact working memory.[40] If a patient performs bilateral stimulation task while remembering the trauma, the amount of information they can recall is reduced, which makes the resulting negative emotions less intense, and more bearable.[41] This is seen by some as a 'distancing effect'. The client is then able to re-evaluate the trauma and to process it correctly.[42]
  • EMDR may enable ‘dual attention’ in which the trauma is recalled while also remaining aware of the present.[42]
  • Horizontal eye movement triggers an evolutionary 'orienting response' in the brain, used in scanning the environment for threats and opportunities.[43]
  • EMDR gives an effect similar to the effects of sleep,[44][unreliable medical source] and posit that traumatic experiences are processed during sleep.
  • Trauma can be overcome or mastered, and EMDR facilitates a form of mindfulness or other forms of mastery over the trauma.[42]

A 2013 meta-analysis focused on two mechanisms: (1) taxing working memory and (2) orienting response/REM sleep.[45]

It may be that several mechanisms are at work in EMDR.[42]

Bilateral stimulation, including eye movement

Bilateral stimulation is a generalization of the left and right repetitive eye movement technique first used by Shapiro. Alternative stimuli include auditory stimuli that alternate between left and right speakers or headphones and physical stimuli such as tapping of the therapist's hands or tapping devices.[46] Research has attempted to correlate other types of rhythmic side-to-side stimuli, such as sound and touch, with mood, memory, and cerebral hemispheric interaction. Francine Shapiro noticed that eye movements appeared to decrease the negative emotion associated with her own distressing memories.[47][48][49] Bilateral stimulation seems to cause dissipation of emotions.[50][51] Research results and opinions have been mixed on the effectiveness and importance of the technique;

  • A 2020 systematic review and meta-analysis including nine dismantling[clarification needed] randomized controlled trials of EMDR with or without bilateral eye-movements found that the efficacy between EMDR with and without eye-movements were negligible to non-existent.[52]
  • A 2020 review questioned the consistency and generalizability of the technique.[53]

Pseudoscience

EMDR has been characterized as pseudoscience, because the underlying theory is unfalsifiable. Also, the results of the therapy are non-specific, especially if the eye movement component is irrelevant to the results. What remains is a broadly therapeutic interaction and deceptive marketing.[10][54] According to Yale neurologist Steven Novella:

[T]he false specificity of these treatments is a massive clinical distraction. Time and effort are wasted clinically in studying, perfecting, and using these methods, rather than focusing on the components of the interaction that actually work.[55]

History

EMDR was invented by Francine Shapiro (1948 – 2019) in the late 1980s.

In a workshop, Shapiro related how the idea of the therapy came to her while she was taking a walk in the woods, and discerned she had been able to cope better with disturbing thoughts when also experiencing saccadic eye movements.[56] Psychologist Gerald Rosen has expressed doubt about this description, saying that people are normally not aware of this type of eye movement.[56] Gerald Rosen and Bruce Grimley suggest that it is more likely that she developed EMDR out of her experience with neuro-linguistic programming.[57][58][59]

See also

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