Re:EMDR and Boundaries

I found what you wrote very interesting; the example helped to clarify.

However; I think when dealing with a client with PTSD as a result of sexual abuse, and the client still contends with feelings of betrayal, then if the client and therapist were usually connecting (eye contact, head nodding, etc.) and that was established, then for the client to go to a completely "sterile" environment, accessing that memory and feeling the betrayal, and the therapist is *not* connecting in an established pattern, then the client will want to seek the connection or find another way to ensure that a connection exists in a different environment.

It's more of a betrayal/trust issue ... if trust with a therapist had been previously established and suddenly the client is put into a situation where the signs of the "usual connectedness" do not exist, then, it would seem reasonable for the client to seek the connectedness ... not out of anything from the past (memory), but out of what had already been established in the present with the therapist.

Does that make sense?

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Re:EMDR and Boundaries , by Sandra Paulsen PhD, 04/20/04

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