Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing occupies a singular position in the depth-psychology corpus as the most rigorously systematized trauma-processing methodology to emerge from the late twentieth century, one whose theoretical architecture bridges behaviorist exposure traditions and a broader adaptive information-processing paradigm. Francine Shapiro’s foundational texts — the canonical second edition of the basic principles and procedures manual alongside the popularizing volume Getting Past Your Past — dominate the library’s treatment of the term, establishing its eight-phase protocol, its Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, and its reliance on bilateral stimulation as both clinical tool and contested theoretical linchpin. The corpus registers two major tensions. First, there is the question of mechanism: whether positive treatment effects derive specifically from eye movement components, from bilateral hemispheric activation, from the orienting response, or from the cognitive restructuring and exposure elements that EMDR shares with competing modalities such as Cognitive Processing Therapy. Second, there is the question of scope: Shapiro’s own texts expand EMDR’s claimed applicability from single-incident PTSD to complex dissociative presentations, personality pathology, somatic disorders, and even schizophrenic symptomatology, a range that other voices in the corpus — van der Kolk, Lanius, Siegel — engage with varying degrees of corroboration. EMDR thus functions in this library as both a clinical protocol and an epistemological provocation, forcing reconsideration of how traumatic memory is stored, accessed, and transformed.