Re:Physical reactions

<What makes EMDR unique is that it provides a method for assessing and targetting issues, that
have been held out of awareness, opening up the material that needs resolution, safely titrating affect and guiding the
process to an adaptive resolution. >

I find your continued allusions (which pop up on this list from time to time) to treating "repressed" memories quite troubling. It appears that your clinical experience with such "phemonena" mirror your clinical experience with EMDR in that they are not confirmed by science. It is obvious that in the area of memory, as has been witnessed with your views regarding treatment of PTSD, you reach conclusions that appear to contradict the views of serious researchers in these areas. You are certainly entitled to your opinion, although as a professional I believe that you are obliged to examine the empirical support for your clinical observations carefully to consider your practice.

I would suggest that any clients who are seeing therapists who want to work on so-called "repressed" memories become informed on the issue before going any further. Memory research has consistently not supported this mechanism in memory and in fact points to much different conclusions. Trying to "uncover" such memories have can not only lead to unproductive results but also potentially dangerous ones.

Those interested in learning about repressed memory can browse the following web site:

http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/

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Re:Physical reactions , by a client, 02/12/01 Re:Physical reactions , by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 02/12/01 Re:Repressed memory information, by , 02/12/01 Re:Repressed memory information, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 02/12/01 Emergent traumatic material, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 02/12/01 Re:Emergent traumatic material, by , 02/12/01 Re:Emergent traumatic material, by Cynthia Byrtus, 04/13/01 Who are you?, by Diane, 02/14/02 Re:Repressed memory information-a different source, by , 02/12/01 Re:Repressed memory information, by a client, 02/12/01 Re:Repressed memory information, by Cynthia A. Byrtus, 04/13/01 Re:Physical reactions , by prefer unknown, 02/12/01 Re:Physical reactions , by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 02/13/01 Re:Physical reactions , by by string originator, 02/16/01 Re:Physical reactions , by Robert P. O'Brien, Ph.D., 02/17/01 Re:Physical reactions , by Insider, 12/21/02 Re:Physical reactions , by , 12/22/02 Re:Physical reactions , by Insider, 12/22/02 Re:Physical reactions , by Insider, 12/22/02

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