EMDR and the Energy Therapies: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

by Phil Mollon

Overview

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), along with methods from the new field of energy psychology, such as the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), enable the rapid processing and release of traumatic memories and painful emotion. In this innovative work, Phil Mollon demonstrates how the perspectives of EMDR, energy psychology, and psychoanalysis can inform and enrich each other. By summarising relevant research and providing many clinical examples, Mollon has produced a challenging and invigorating scrutiny of psychoanalysis and an expanded vision of the potential for psychosomatic healing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855753761
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/24/2004
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.03(d)

About the Author

Phil Mollon is a member of the Independent Group within the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is also a clinical psychologist, and trained in psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic. His interests have included Heinz Kohut and Self Psychology, trauma and traumatic memory, dissociative states of mind, shame, and disturbances in the experience of self. He is on the Advisory Board of the New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He works primarily within the British National Health Service, in Hertfordshire.

Table of Contents

Preface , Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), emotional freedom techniques (EFT), and psychoanalysis , The waking dream: from Freud to EMDR , What happens during an EMDR or EFT session? , The abandonment of memory, trauma, and sexuality: the excessive preoccupation with “transference”, and other problems with contemporary psychoanalysis , Disintegration anxiety: the bedrock resistance to psychological change , EMDR treatment of a travel phobia with complex traumatic roots , Jane: EMDR and psychotherapy with a traumatized and abused woman , Brief case illustrations , Using EMDR and energy methods in practice , A comprehensive model of the psychosomatic matrix: towards quantum energy therapy , Research conclusions , Two therapists’ personal experiences , Appendix 1