1st Edition

EMDR and the Energy Therapies Psychoanalytic Perspectives

By Phil Mollon Copyright 2005
    332 Pages
    by Routledge

    332 Pages
    by Routledge

    Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), along with methods from the new field of energy psychology, such as the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), enable the rapid processing and release of traumatic memories and painful emotion. In this innovative work, Phil Mollon demonstrates how the perspectives of EMDR, energy psychology, and psychoanalysis can inform and enrich each other. By summarising relevant research and providing many clinical examples, Mollon has produced a challenging and invigorating scrutiny of psychoanalysis and an expanded vision of the potential for psychosomatic healing.

    Preface , Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), emotional freedom techniques (EFT), and psychoanalysis , The waking dream: from Freud to EMDR , What happens during an EMDR or EFT session? , The abandonment of memory, trauma, and sexuality: the excessive preoccupation with “transference”, and other problems with contemporary psychoanalysis , Disintegration anxiety: the bedrock resistance to psychological change , EMDR treatment of a travel phobia with complex traumatic roots , Jane: EMDR and psychotherapy with a traumatized and abused woman , Brief case illustrations , Using EMDR and energy methods in practice , A comprehensive model of the psychosomatic matrix: towards quantum energy therapy , Research conclusions , Two therapists’ personal experiences , Appendix 1

    Biography

    Phil Mollon