Transforming Trauma: EMDR: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Freeing the Mind, Clearing the Body, and Opening the Heart

Very helpful as I prepare for treatment

This is about the details of new psychotherapy of regressing & releasing old traumatic (PTSD) that suffers millions of us hurt by abuse, accidents, rape, suicide, beating, birth trauma, etc. It very mysterious how remembering old hurt & terrors can be healed by recalling them & flickering eye movements is explained clearly. Its psychotherapy language take adjusting till we can maybe believe it can work. I've heard several interviews on C2Cam of EMDR therapists & damaged peoples healing stories. Reminds me of but very different than "Primal Scream therapy, 'Past-life regression', & 'Matrix Energetics" & other subconscious therapies to release old bad horrors, even past life abuses, death & dying, etc.  Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of TransformationThe New Primal Scream: Primal Therapy 20 Years On (Abacus Books)   Celebration of Breath: Rebirthing, Book II; Or How to Survive Anything and Heal Your Body

Very interesting read

An easy to read, clear description of EMDR therapy and how it has been used with success. Importantly, it tells you what it will not work for as well. Definitely read this book if anyone has suggested you try EMDR.

EMDR is so powerful and Laurel Parnell is so talented

Transforming Trauma: EMDR: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Freeing the Mind, Clearing the Body, and Opening the Heart I was able to gain an understanding of EMDR with easy to understand, not too hard or simple language.This book is a quick read with all of the information I need.

This book was recommended by my therapist. Because of my PTSD, this is a very necessary book. The book is wonderful and I bought two additional copies for my best friend and my sister. I highly recommended it!

Quick service & good read

I found this book extremely helpful. I was new to the EMDR approach and believe this book to be an honest overview of the subject. It details actual case notes from subjects undergoing the therapy and provides realistic ideas of lengths of therapy, success rates and who the therapy could be suitable for. It also provides important suggestions for finding yourself an EMDR therapist.

Lots of anacdotal accounts. Not an instructional manual for emdr

From the perspective of a psychotherapist, this is a thoroughly informative - and engaging - book: an excellent balance of the two, with plenty of case studies to illustrate the method and the subtleties of the integrative process of healing of trauma within the psyche. (I write this with enthusiasm while still reading, about two-thirds through!)