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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio

Mark A. Curtis

South Suburban Mental Health Associates in Bellbrook, Ohio

Ruth Dailey Grainger

Therapy Research Institute, Inc., in Miami, Florida

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapeutic method that was developed in the late 1980s by Shapiro. EMDR is based on specific and repetitive rapid eye movements similar to those experienced naturally in rapid eye movement sleep. When the client holds in cognition the visual images, negative statements, and dis tressing feelings associated with trauma memory and engages in EMDR at the same time, a desensitization spontaneously occurs, with intensive information reprocessing leading to resolution. (J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc [1998]. 4, 140-144)

Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Vol. 4, No. 5, 140-144 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/107839039800400502


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