Posted by mattdds on December 26, 2003, at 21:25:33
In reply to Re: You know what might be interesting? » mattdds, posted by tabitha on December 26, 2003, at 20:49:09
> Hi Matt. I don't think anyone does that Freudian stuff anymore. There was one thread here about someone having classic psychoanalysis, but it was the exception. My therapist uses a whole mixture of techniques. I see influences from cognitive, interpersonal, transactional analysis, gestalt therapy, EMDR, client-centered, re-parenting techniques, and I don't know what all else. Maybe it's a regional thing-- Southern California eclectic.
You may be right, could be a regional thing. Here in the Northeast (well, at least NYC), I have noticed there is much more CBT influence than when I lived out West.
Best,
Matt
P.S. As an aside, I personally don't think EMDR is much more than CBT with a pseudoscientific gimmick added on. I read some stuff that showed that the eye movements + CBT had no additional benefit over CBT alone. I'll post an abstract below, from www.quackwatch.com:
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is promoted for the treatment of post-traumatic stress, phobias, learning disorders, and many other mental and emotional problems. The method involves asking the client to recall the traumatic event as vividly as possible and rate certain feelings before and after visually tracking the therapist's finger as it is moved back and forth in front of the client's eyes [6]. EMDR's developer and leading proponent, Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., received her nonaccredited doctoral degree in 1988 and established the EMDR Institute to train mental health professionals. She and her associates have trained more than 22,000 clinicians worldwide in workshops that in 1997 cost $385 [7]. EMDR resembles various traditional behavioral therapies for reducing fears in that it requires clients to imagine traumatic events in a gradual fashion in the presence of a supportive therapist. However, controlled research has shown that EMDR's most distinctive feature (visual tracking) is unnecessary and is irrelevant to whatever benefits the patient may receive [8]. Recent reviews have concluded that the data claimed to support EMDR derive mostly from uncontrolled case reports and poorly designed controlled experiments and that the theory of EMDR clashes with scientific knowledge of the role of eye movements [9,10].
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