ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the author's work with a woman Lynn, who came in after experiencing frightening events in which she felt out of control with rage, anxiety, and the underlying depression. It discusses the use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to access these current events alongside her early experiences and explicit memories from various developmental points in her life. The chapter discusses some modifications that the author made to the use of bilateral stimulation (BLS) while keeping the psychoanalytic approach in mind, for the sake of blending the two methods without diminishing the benefits of either approach. It then examines how use of EMDR in accessing and clearing embodied relational trauma helps initiate the beginning of a mobilized mourning process, while revealing attachment to that which is lost, as a form of what the author call I-dentity, in the presence of limited actual relationships.
