EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma

by Francine Shapiro, Margot Silk Forrest

Overview

Discover the essential guide to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR) from its pioneering creator, Francine Shapiro
 

• Gain insights into how painful life experiences are physically stored in our brains and how EMDR therapy can bring relief.
• Learn how EMDR techniques can be used to address trauma-related conditions, PTSD, depression, anxiety, and other experience-based disorders by exploring clinical case studies.
• Understand why EMDR is hailed as the most important method to emerge in psychotherapy in decades.

EMDR is fundamental reading for practicing psychotherapists and anyone interested in understanding trauma, healing processes, and achieving better mental health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780465096749
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	09/13/2016
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Francine Shapiro, PhD (1948-2019), was the originator and developer of EMDR therapy. She was the director of the EMDR Institute and a senior research fellow, emerita, at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California. Her work has enabled hundreds of thousands of clinicians to treat millions of patients worldwide.

Margot Silk Forrest is a writer and independent book editor living in Morro Bay, California.
 

Table of Contents

1. The Journey of Discovery
2. Laying the Foundation
3. The Spirit and the Sword: Combat’s Tragic Legacy
4. The Fabric of Treatment: Uncovering the Hidden Depths of Pain
5. The Many Faces of Fear: Phobias and Panic Attacks
6. When Terror Stalks the Night: Sleep Disorders and Childhood Trauma
7. The Ties That Bind: Disorders of Attachment
8. Healing the Ravages of Rape
9. Laying Grief to Rest
10. Breaking the Iron Grasp of Addiction
11. The Final Doorway: Facing Disease, Disability, and Death
12. Visions of the Future: The Global Reach of EMDR

Appendix A: Choosing a Clinician, and Finding an EMDR Therapy Organization
Appendix B: Trauma Research and Further Reading
Appendix C: EMDR Therapy: Evaluated Clinical Applications

Editorial Reviews

A procedure to be reckoned with in psychology.”—Washington Post

"Especially convincing in the wealth of research."—San Francisco Chronicle

"Where traditional therapies may take years, EMDR takes only a few sessions."—Stars and Stripes

"The non-pharmaceutical equivalent of Prozac."—New York Magazine

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