Newsletter Archives
Access past issues of the EMDR News by clicking on the links below.July 21, 2010 This issue reports on two of the plenaries from EMDR Europe's 11th annual conference in Hamburg June 11-13 and several of the presentations at the first EMDR Asia conference in Bali July 9-11, 2010. Five abstracts of recent articles on EMDR are listed including: a case series of phantom limb pain treated with EMDR with long-term follow up; a working memory investigation of counting as a distractor similar to BLS in EMDR; how the smoothness of pursuit eye movements in EMDR improves with successful reprocessing; a case series of depressed patients treated with EMDR; and a pilot controlled trial of acute schizophrenic inpatients treated with EMDR. There are highlights from my Google Reader feed on recent research reports on Brain, Behavior and Memory such as the locus of courage in the brain.
April 2, 2010 This issue invites clinicians to join me in attending the First EMDR Asia Conference "Building Bridges between East & West through EMDR" at the Inna Grand Bali Beach Hotel, Sanur, Bali, Indonesia July 9-11, 2010. It announces the Sonoma PTI blog commentary “Developmental Pathways to Dissociation” on two prospective longitudinal studies that followed high-risk children from birth to age 19. If you believe that "attachment trauma" is the root cause of adult dissociation or that disorganized attachment is a necessary precursor to adult dissociation you will be surprised by the findings of these compelling studies. It reviews a new treatment outcome article from Kemp, Drummond and McDermott (2010) on children with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms from motor vehicle accidents that concludes that EMDR should be considered a primary treatment for children suffering from persistent PTSD. There are highlights from my Google Reader feed on recent research reports on Brain, Behavior and Memory such as “When memory-related neurons fire in sync with certain brain waves, memories last.”
March 15, 2010 This issue reviews an important new paper from Ad de Jongh, Erik ten Brocke and Steven Meijer describing an approach to EMDR treatment planning that has been taught in some European countries the last few years. There is a summary and a link to the Sonoma PTI blog which features a commentary on just released results of the 2-year Trauma Response Programme (TRP) for those affected by the 2005 London bombings. From 910 initial contacts, 217 individual out of 596 who completed screening were treated with TF-CBT or EMDR. There are also links to recent research reports on brain, behavior, and memory including the identification of different signal paths for spontaneous and deliberate activation of memories.
February 22, 2010 This issue announces the launch of the Sonoma Psychotherapy Training Institute web site and blog. It includes links to news reports on how memories are strengthened by resting, how the brain forgets things on purpose and how attachment style may affect memories for relationship events. The Sonoma PTI blog article featured is “Extinction or Reconsolidation: Differences between suppression and transformation in how we recover from traumatic experiences.” Also, an EMDR research report from Ad de Jongh comparing EMDR and Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) for survivors of road traffic accidents.
January 11, 2010 This issue includes links to – a Science News review article on the default brain network; reports that question the reliability of fMRI studies, sleep deprivation in teens, and the impact of SSRI medication (Paxil) on personality traits; two recent articles on EMDR’s effects on the brain evaluated by near-infrared spectroscopy and Magnetic Resonance Imaging; and history taking tools available free of charge online.
November 19, 2009 This first issue in the new html format includes links to – four major Science News review articles on the science of sleep and a pdf of Bob Stickgold’s 2002 article on EMDR and REM; an October 24, 2009 recording available free of charge online of Dr. Leeds’s talk on using HeartMath’s heart rate coherence biofeedback program with EMDR; and reports on neurogenesis, memory and the hippocampus.