ABSTRACT
A wide variety of cases are described in the following pages, including rape trauma, phobia, depression and low self-esteem, sexual difficulties, the aftermath of divorce, obsessive-compulsive disorder, fetishism, and self-harm. Most involve the use of EMDR, some combine EMDR and EFT, and two are based entirely around EFT. The style of work does not always follow the original protocols for EMDR 1 (Shapiro, 2002a) or for EFT (as taught by Gary Craig, www.emofree.com), whereby the various elements of a trauma are accessed and desensitized until the subjective units of disturbance (SUDs) are reduced to zero. Instead, the EMDR is used as a general facilitation of free association and emotion-processing. It is used both to explore and to process the emerging emotions and psychodynamic conflicts. At times the emotional details and core psychodynamics elicited by EMDR are then “tapped” using EFT in order to bring about a more complete resolution. In every instance the content provided by the therapist is minimal. These methods facilitate the client’s own healing process and require skill but little interpretative content from the therapist. Indeed anything more than an occasional interpretation from the therapist would obstruct the client’s process. Perhaps partly 146because of this facilitating but unobtrusive stance from the therapist, phenomena of transference, while not absent, are not prominent and, certainly, transference is not the vehicle of treatment.
