{"id":13,"date":"2015-02-20T15:10:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T15:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psyparis16.com\/english\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2023-04-28T14:17:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T14:17:30","slug":"e-m-d-r","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.psyparis16.com\/english\/e-m-d-r\/","title":{"rendered":"E.M.D.R"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"font-family: Roboto; text-align: center;\">EMDR&nbsp;(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px;\"><strong style=\"color: #87383d;\">EMDR<\/strong> and psychoanalysis are not in opposition of each other. I use EMDR as an additional tool. After<strong style=\"color: #87383d;\"> my experience of September 11th 2001 in New York<\/strong>, I wanted to add a tool to treat PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder). I then realized that EMDR was not just about PTSD, but that it could be expanded to other sufferings as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px;\">EMDR psychotherapy was discovered in 1987 by an American psychologist Francine Shapiro.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px;\"><em>The American Psychological Association<\/em> (APA) and <em>the World Health Organization<\/em> (WHO) officially recognizes the EMDR as <strong style=\"color: #87383d;\">an effective treatment for PTSD<\/strong> (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).<\/p>\n<div class=\"icon-box\"><i class=\"ico-clock ico-black\" style=\"margin-left: -10px;\"><\/i><div class=\"icon-box-content\"><h3>Consultation time<\/h3><p><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px;\">The sessions usually last 60-minutes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px;\">Treatment involves <strong style=\"color: #87383d;\">three stages<\/strong>: past events, current triggers, and the desirable future states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px;\"><strong style=\"color: #87383d;\">EMDR is based on the principle<\/strong> that when trauma (information about the trauma such as emotions, thoughts, beliefs, physical sensations etc.) is stuck in the nervous system it therefore remains untreated and dysfunctional.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px;\"><strong style=\"color: #87383d;\">Treatment with EMDR<\/strong> will allow for the reorganization and treatment of memories in the brain which will then allow for a more suitable solution and therefore more manageable arrangement in the nervous system. A combination of rigorous procedures and protocols will be used as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px;\">The therapist uses one of the elements of EMDR: <strong style=\"color: #87383d;\">bilateral stimulation<\/strong>. This is done by a stimulation of eye movements (REM-similar to the Rapid Eye Movement in the dream phase), \u201ctapping\u201d, or acoustic stimuli.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px;\"><strong style=\"color: #87383d;\">This method of treatment involves a relationship of trust between the patient and the therapist<\/strong>. That is why I do not start EMDR\u2019s bilateral stimulation (eye movement or \u201ctapping\u201d) the first time I see the patient in session. My ethics require that the patient feels safe first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMDR&nbsp;(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) EMDR and psychoanalysis are not in opposition of each other. I use EMDR as an additional tool. After my experience of September 11th 2001 in New York, I wanted to add a tool to treat PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder). I then realized that EMDR was not just about PTSD, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyparis16.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyparis16.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyparis16.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyparis16.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyparis16.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyparis16.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyparis16.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyparis16.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}