Re:EMDR and mild depression

First, there isn't any controlled research on this subject -however, there are anecdotal clinical cases on point.

EMDR's prototypical application is, as you say, with the focal experiences of trauma. However, clinically, many of us use resource development for ego strengthening or for making positive cognitions more readily, vividly, and viscerally available. This often helps with longstanding depression, in clinical experience.

Sometimes depression is contained in deep pockets or pools of hurt and unmet needs early in life that not only established habits ofnegative cognitions, but also that are preserved in time, in sad child ego states. These are accessible and modifiable through a combination of ego state therapy and emdr, with resource development. Not described in Level II training, but a number of clinicians know about it now. There is also a protocol to meet early unmet developmental milestones in a systematic way.

Workshops that are sponsored by the EMDR Institute in these areas include: Andrew Leeds, PhD, on Resource Development, Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, on Ego State Therapy and EMDR (Healing the Divided Self) and Maureen Kitchur's Strategic Developmental Model.

Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD
Walnut Creek California

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