Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR: Embodied Experience and Clinical Practice

by Hemda Arad

Overview

Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR: Embodied Experience and Clinical Practice provides contemporary theoretical and clinical links between Relational Psychoanalysis, attachment theory, neuroscience, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, all of which bring both the patient’s and analyst’s embodied experience into the forefront of clinical thinking and practice. The author grounds an in-depth view on the ways psychoanalysis and EMDR can be effectively integrated to complement each other through a presentation of fundamental concepts and an abundance of insightful and moving clinical vignettes.

Hemda Arad outlines the theoretical and clinical concepts that allow the integration of Relational Psychoanalysis with EMDR’s unique contributions, specifically appreciating the neurological and embodied experience in an individual’s development in relation to the classic talking cure’s approach to dealing with "big T" trauma and with "small t" everyday attachment-related trauma. Arad describes a view of a modified EMDR approach capable of reaching many patients, beyond the trauma work for which it originally became known, in order to lend its more embodied approach to the advancement of the relational endeavor. Vivid clinical illustrations, chosen to elucidate theoretical concepts, make the complex theoretical ideas more accessible. The clinical portions illustrate a range of ways that EMDR and relational work, which may at first seem incompatible, may be integrated to help therapists navigate the two methods.

Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR: Embodied Experience and Clinical Practice will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and psychodynamic therapists who wish to learn about the relational tradition in theory and practice or are seeking a way to integrate their work with other versatile approaches such as EMDR, as well as advanced students studying across these areas and EMDR clinicians who would like to broaden the scope of their skills.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138065369
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/19/2017
Series:	Relational Perspectives Book Series
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Hemda Arad, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, consultant, and Washington State Approved Supervisor. She is also an EMDRIA Certified Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapist. She has served on the faculties of the Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis and the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis program: New Directions: Writing with a Psychoanalytic Edge. She works in private practice in Seattle with individuals, couples, and groups.

Table of Contents

Preface x

Acknowledgments xii

Introduction xvii

Part I Literature and theory 1

1 EMDR-History, method, protocol, and modifications for integration with relational psychoanalysis 3

2 The influence of big T and small t trauma on the brain 21

3 The relational perspective within the psychoanalytic tradition 45

4 Attachment: Companionship in action 78

Part II Case studies using both relational psychoanalysis and EMDR 115

5 In the trenches: Digging for lost passions-The use of EMDR in psychoanalytic work 117

6 Working in tandem 135

7 I-dentity: Is trusted love ever an option? 164

8 EMDR in absentia-The power of "No" 177

9 Conclusions: Reintegrating the music with the lyrics 188

Index 201