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EMDR CENTRE LONDON

EMDR CENTRE LONDON

EMDR training organisation

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Creation Of EMDR

In 1987 American clinical psychologist Dr Francine Shapiro noticed by chance during a walk in the park that her disturbance of negative thoughts lessened when she moved her eyes back and forth between the trees.

Following this experience she tested the effect of deliberate eye movements on herself while concentrating on negative thoughts. The positive changes observed led her to extend her experiments with induced eye movements to friends and acquaintances. They were instructed to focus on negative thoughts and the effects associated with these thoughts, while following the movements of Shapiro’s fingers with their eyes.

Encouraged by the success of these experiments, Francine Shapiro developed a standard procedure which she called EMD (Eye Movement Desensitisation , as she initially assumed that her procedure was a variant of the well-known behavioural therapy, Systematic Desensitisation  At the end of 1987 she tested the efficacy of EMD in an empirical examination on patients diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In 1989 the results were published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress and showed a significant decrease in distress amongst those receiving this treatment as compared to the control group.

During further research and development of the method Shapiro observed clear differences between this treatment and the behavioural therapy approach. She further developed EMD from 1987 to 1991 in California into what is now the EMDR method. She first employed EMDR in 1989 for therapeutic work with war trauma victims. EMDR today is a dynamic process which utilises elements of psycho-dynamic as well as behavioural therapy.

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Michael Raschke
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7 Bradmore Park Road
Hammersmith W6 0DT
London
United Kingdom

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