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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (2017 Rerun)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

[Rerun] Dr. Kirk Honda talks about the trauma therapy EMDR.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, today is just me. I'm going to talk about EMDR, and I'm also going to talk specifically

0:12.2

about EMDR and its application to borderline personality disorder. I'm going to talk about

0:17.3

the history, the treatment modality, the evidence, the science, the criticisms, the how it

0:24.4

integrates with borderline treatment, and a final word.

0:28.0

This is the Psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I am chair of

0:33.0

the couple and family therapy program at Antiac University, Seattle, and I'm also a licensed

0:38.5

marriage of family therapist. This episode is in response to an email from patron Megan.

0:46.0

She wrote, I would love an episode on EMDR, specifically in its application for treating

0:51.8

borderline personality disorder. I currently work as a CSI worker, paraprofessional, and I

0:58.5

spent a ton of time in the car so I can't get enough of the podcast. I'm also looking

1:02.8

to start graduate school for counseling, and it was this podcast that got me interested

1:07.6

in Antioch University, and quote, alright, well patron Megan, thanks for that, and if you

1:15.2

end up coming to Antioch Seattle, hit me up, and we'll get coffee and talk. Okay, so let's

1:22.1

talk about EMDR. EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It's a mouthful.

1:30.3

The history of EMDR, it was developed by Francine Shapiro, an American, starting in the

1:38.9

late 80s, around 1987. She noticed that when she thought about her own traumas, I believe

1:45.6

she was sexually assaulted, her eyes moved in a rapid diagonal direction side to side,

1:53.4

so she would look up and look, you know, she'd look up into the right, or I think, and then

1:58.5

down into the left, up into the right, down and left, and she in her eyes moved back and

2:01.7

forth, and she noticed that this eye movement back and forth while she thought about these

2:08.3

traumas that she had been through. She noticed that it seemed to help her recover from those

2:15.2

terrible experiences. She had been through a trauma, and she had symptoms of PTSD afterwards

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