These are the books on EMDR and trauma therapy we recommend to participants of our training courses and to practitioners working with the method. They are grouped by what you might be looking for.
Foundational works on EMDR
- Francine Shapiro: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures (2nd edition). The Guilford Press, London – the standard reference by the founder of the method
- Francine Shapiro & Margot Silk Forest: EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Trauma. Basic Books
- David Grand: Emotional Healing at Warp Speed. The Power of EMDR. Present Tents Publishing, New York, 2003
For practitioners: technique and application
- Laurel Parnell: A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR. Tools and Techniques for Successful Treatment. Norton & Company, New York
- Laurel Parnell: Attachment-focused EMDR. Norton & Company, 2013
- Jamie Marich: EMDR Made Simple – Four Approaches to Using EMDR with Every Client. Premier Publishing & Media, 2011
EMDR with children and young people
- Robert Tinker & Sandra Wilson: Through the Eyes of a Child – EMDR with Children. Norton Professional Books
- Ana M. Gomez: EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment, and Dissociation. Springer Publishing Company
- Dr Joan Lovett: Small Wonders: Healing Childhood Trauma with EMDR. Free Press, 1999
These titles complement our EMDR training for children and young people.
Trauma and the body: wider reading
- Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score – Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Penguin
- Peter A. Levine: Waking the Tiger. Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley
- Stephen W. Porges: The Polyvagal Theory. Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation. Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
If you would like to learn the method itself rather than read about it, see our EMDR training – or read about how Francine Shapiro developed EMDR.
