EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma
Also known as EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy
Francine Shapiro and Margot Silk Forrest's case-based introduction to EMDR
At a glance
What it argues
Stored experience, More than trauma
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Learning through cases, Written with an editor
See all 2How it was received
Washington Post, Stars and Stripes
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Getting Past Your Past, EMDR therapy textbook, EMDR
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Francine Shapiro, Margot Silk Forrest and 2 others
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- The book introduces EMDR therapy through clinical case studies.
- It explains how painful life experiences are physically stored in the brain and how EMDR aims to relieve them.
- It covers trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety and other experience-based problems.
- It came out in 1997 and was updated in 2004.
Why it matters
- For readers who want to see what EMDR looks like in real cases before reading anything technical.
- Its publisher pitches it to practising therapists and to anyone interested in trauma.
Key facts
- Authors
- Francine Shapiro and Margot Silk Forrest1
- Published
- 19972
- Updated edition
- 2004, Basic Books3
- Publisher
- Basic Books1
- Pages
- 384 (2016 paperback)1
- ISBN
- 9780465096749 (2016 paperback)1
- ISBN (2004 edition)
- 978-0-465-04301-93
- Audience
- Practising psychotherapists and anyone interested in trauma and healing1
What it argues
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Stored experience1
Painful life experiences are physically stored in the brain, and EMDR therapy can bring relief from them.
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More than trauma1
The same approach is presented for PTSD, depression, anxiety and other experience-based disorders.
Key ideas
How it was received
Read next
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Shapiro's later self-help book, with exercises you can try yourself.
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The full clinical text for practitioners.
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The overview page, including what reviews say about the evidence.
Connections
Written by
- Francine ShapiroPerson
- Margot Silk ForrestWriter and book editor, co-author
Links
Sources
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