EMDR Therapy: What Is it and How Does it Work?
In the late 1980s, Dr. Francine Shapiro began studying people’s physical reactions while recalling upsetting memories; rapid eye movements were the most common symptom in patients during traumatic stress studies. From these observations, Shapiro developed Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR therapy, and the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, combining guided recollections of disturbing […]