Drug and Alcohol Recovery The History and Abuse Of Alcohol Throughout recorded history, there has always been alcohol in of some variety. When you are sitting on a Friday night with your vodka and coke or Pernod and lemonade, does it ever cross your mind how exactly the drink came about? Below is a history […]
What-is-EMDR How Does EMDR Work EMDR Therapy for PTSD What Are the Risks? – EMDR Side Effects What is EMDR EMDR or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a fairly new, nontraditional type of psychotherapy. It’s growing in popularity, particularly for treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD often occurs after experiences such as […]
By Wilfried Busse | Submitted On February 26, 2013 In recent years, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) has become one of the most ground-breaking and talked about therapies for clinicians and clients dealing with the lingering effects of trauma. As with any new form of therapy, EMDR has its believers and non-believers. As the subject […]
By Teresa Allen Why EMDR? EMDR is a type of psychotherapy which helps people recover from difficult memories, especially traumatic ones. Many people in recovery from addictions have difficult memories in their past–memories that led up to their addiction or memories that resulted from using and drinking. About 60 percent of people in recovery have […]
By Rachel Evans EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. This is a technique that is supposed to be useful in helping people overcome things like anxiety, many phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol or drug abuse, schizophrenia, learning and eating disorders and disabilities, and other personality or mental problems a person may have. At […]
EMDR therapy involves focusing on three periods of time: yesteryear, present, and future. The focus is offered to past disturbing memories and related events. Also, it’s given to current situations that induce distress, and to developing the relevant skills and attitudes necessary for positive future actions. With EMDR therapy, these items are addressed having an eight-phase treatment approach.
