EMDR Toolbox 2nd Edition : Theory and Treatment of Complex PTSD and Dissociation

Jim Knipe
EMDR Toolbox 2nd Edition : Theory and Treatment of Complex PTSD and Dissociation

EMDR Toolbox 2nd Edition : Theory and Treatment of Complex PTSD and Dissociation
ISBN: 9780826172556
Publication Date: 29 November 2018

This innovative resource for therapists trained in Standard EMDR delivers a powerful set of EMDR-based "Tools" - useful strategies for helping difficult-to-treat clients with complex emotional problems. The second edition reflects the author's ongoing efforts to design treatments that can significantly extend the therapeutic power of methods based on an Adaptive Information Processing model. It describes new discoveries that promote effective ways of structuring therapy sessions and refines original treatment procedures that can facilitate and safely accelerate therapeutic progress.

The book provides an overview of the principal issues in treating these complex emotional problems and describes highly effective methodologies with a wide variety of clinical presentations that originate in or include disturbing traumatic memories. It also describes how to integrate specific EMDR-related interventions with other psychotherapeutic treatments. Each intervention is examined in detail with accompanying transcripts, client drawings, and case studies illustrating the nuances and variations in intervention application. Bolstered by supporting theory and current research, the book also discusses how the concepts and vocabulary of other models of dissociation translate directly into EMDR's Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) language.

New to the Second Edition:

  • Describes new strategies and refinements of standard methods for treatment of clients with complex emotional problems
  • Includes two completely new chapters, "Internal Healing Dialogue" and "Case Example: treating the problem of 'attachment to the perpetrator'"
  • Provides new case examples on childhood sexual abuse
  • Offers new sections on treating chronic defensive shame, t...