EMDR, Adaptive Information Processing, and Case Conceptualization
@article{Shapiro2007EMDRAI, title={EMDR, Adaptive Information Processing, and Case Conceptualization}, author={Francine Shapiro}, journal={Journal of EMDR Practice and Research}, year={2007}, volume={1}, pages={68 - 87} }
EMDR is an integrative, client-centered psychotherapy approach that emphasizes the brain’s information processing system and memories of disturbing experiences as the bases of those pathologies not caused by organic deficit or insult. EMDR addresses the experiences that contribute to clinical conditions and those needed to bring the client to a robust state of psychological health. Overviews of the history, development, and research that have established EMDR as an empirically supported…
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