Eye Movement Integration Therapy

After experiencing traumatic events, many people continue to be troubled by disturbing and intrusive memories, for months, years - even for a lifetime. Their symptoms range from anxiety to depression, from sexual dysfunction to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Mental health specialists have long sought efficient means to alleviate the suffering of these individuals, with regrettably limited success. The book introduces one of the most innovative and effective new treatments available to psychotherapists today, offering new hope to those who endure the often debilitating after-effects of psychological trauma. Eye Movement Integration Therapy: The Comprehensive Clinical Guide is the first book written about EMI, and is intended for a professional readership of counsellors, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists. It presents the background and theoretical bases for the development of EMI, and extensive and detailed instructions for its clinical application. Filled with examples drawn from clinical cases and informed by extensive experience teaching the technique, the book will be accessible to readers with prior training in psychology, as well as to informed lay persons. EMI is astonishingly rapid in its effects, freeing clients from the burden of unresolved memories of almost any form of trauma-from childhood abuse to car accidents; from rape to natural disaster to combat-in just one to six treatment sessions. This is not hypnosis, nor magic, but an extraordinarily direct means of releasing the power of the mind to do what it was designed to do: heal itself. While the neurological basis for the efficacy of EMI remains unknown, the book does present a substantive discussion of the current research that may shed light on the 394 pages.