Emdr: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma - Paperback

by Francine Shapiro (Author), Margot Silk Forrest (Author)

Hailed as the most important method to emerge in psychotherapy in decades, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR) has successfully treated more than one million sufferers worldwide for trauma-related conditions, as well as phobias and other experience-based disorders. EMDR is the essential guide to this remarkable therapy, written by its pathbreaking creator Francine Shapiro.

Drawing on the experiences of thousands of clinicians as well as a vast research literature on depression, addiction, PTSD, and other disorders, Shapiro explains how painful life experiences are physically stored in our brains, making us feel and act in counterproductive ways, and how EMDR therapy can bring relief, often in a remarkably short period of time. EMDR is essential reading for practicing psychotherapists and anyone who seeks to understand why we hurt, how we heal, and how we get better.

Author Biography

Francine Shapiro, PhD (1948-2019), was the originator and developer of EMDR therapy. She was the director of the EMDR Institute and a senior research fellow, emerita, at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California. Her work has enabled hundreds of thousands of clinicians to treat millions of patients worldwide.

Margot Silk Forrest is a writer and independent book editor living in Morro Bay, California.