EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:EMDR & Hypnosis
Sandra Paulsen Inobe PhD · 07/12/03 at 11:14 ET
There is one published study on this question, which has been discussed before (please review the forum and its archives), from the journal Dissociation 1995, summer volume, by Nicosio, in which he compared EEG brain waves in EMDR to that in hypnosis and found them to be different. In EMDR people may be drinking water or getting up to adjust something and it feels to them like a normal state of consciousness. From a clinical standpoint, EMDR and hypnosis may be interwoven to manage the level of emotional intensity during processing. Hypnosis --- which is related to dissociation --- can be used to imaginally tamp down on emotions, whereas EMDR --- which is related to association --- can be used to open up or access emotions and other internal experience. Using the two together artfully is like driving a car down the road and adjusting the course by pulling the wheel to the left -- numbing --- or to the right --- accessing --- to keep the car going right down the middle. In the middle between assocative flooding and numbing is where the optimal level is to get the processing done, and that's where the healing comes.
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