I think it might intesrest some of you. I'm doing a assignment on a therapeutic approach and I chose EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing). For those that don't know what it is, it's essentialy a really short term therapy (usually only 3 sessions) in which the therapist makes you talk about the traumatic experience and while you do so, he moves his fingers from right to left to activate different regions of the brain so that you can actually integrate the information that relates to the trauma. In this view, the problems would be caused by the fact that there's a bad integration of the trauma in the memory.
That's a short description but feel free to ask questions and I'll try to dig in !
That's a treatment that is scientifically proven and suggested for those with post-traumatic stress disorder (I think it was the first therapy scientifically proven to work for this problem) and in general it can help people with anxiety problem and a whole lot of other problems.
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Repeating the process of activation, multilayered focal attention, encoding, reactivation, and encoding would reorganize the memory into a more tolerable, integrated, and perhaps resolved configuration that no longer has such devastating effects on the flexibility of the system’s flow of states.
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The process of integrating the modalities from the left and from the right hemispheres may enable traumatic memories to be processed in a new way, one that fosters resolution.
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