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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures is a work by Francine Shapiro (2001).

Core claims

  • Shapiro’s Adaptive Information Processing model is not merely a clinical protocol but an implicit theory of psychic self-regulation that parallels Jung’s concept of the transcendent function — both posit an inherent drive toward integration that pathology merely obstructs.
  • EMDR’s eight-phase protocol operationalizes what depth psychology has long described mythologically: the structured descent into traumatic memory, the encounter with its affective charge, and the guided return to adaptive resolution — a clinical katabasis rendered procedural.
  • The book’s most radical contribution is its insistence that bilateral stimulation catalyzes an information processing system the psyche already possesses, positioning the therapist not as interpreter of meaning but as facilitator of a self-healing capacity that Kalsched’s “self-care system” simultaneously protects and imprisons.
  • How does Shapiro’s concept of “channels of association” during EMDR reprocessing compare to Hillman’s understanding of dream-work as the psyche’s autonomous image-making activity in Archetypal Psychology: A Brief Account?
  • In what ways does Kalsched’s Protector/Persecutor dyad in The Inner World of Trauma illuminate the clinical phenomenon Shapiro describes as “blocking beliefs” that stall EMDR processing — and does EMDR’s resolution of these blocks constitute a dissolution of archetypal defenses?
  • How might Edinger’s account of the therapist as physician-healer, philosopher-scientist, and priest-hierophant in Science of the Soul need to be revised to accommodate the EMDR therapist’s deliberately non-interpretive stance — and what does this revision reveal about the future of depth psychotherapy?

See also

  • Library page: /library/trauma-and-healing/shapiro-eye-movement-desensitization/

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