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Re: Addictions


On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Dave DiRito wrote:
<SNIP> of a bunch of good material, just leaving the stuff about EMDR
> something to effectively deal with their trauma, I discovered EMDR (Eye
> Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).  I found this method to be
> vastly more effective and elegant than anything else I tried, including
> NLP's Fast Phobia/Trauma Cure, hypnosis, etc.  Also, for those who are
> interested, it has an ever growing body of sound scientific research to
> support it.  No one's yet come up with a plausible explanation for why or
> how it produces it's results, but work it does.
>
> So, there it is.  My first post to this NLP group and I've just proposed
> that EMDR is superior to anything NLP has to offer for trauma resolution.
>
> Looking forward to the responses,
> Dave DiRito
>

Dave, as far as I'm concerned, there's nothing wrong with saying
EMDR is better a trauma resolution than NLP.  EMDR in fact can be
explained from an NLP standpoint and be added to the NLP
repertoire of techniques.  EMDR consists of moving the eyes back
and forth (from side to side) when thinking about an anxiety
producing memory/mental state (correct me if I'm wrong about
this.)  Now, connect how NLP describes mental states and the NLP
eye-movement hypothesis.  By moving the eyes back and forth
quickly, the mental representation of that unwanted state/memory
is getting scrambled.  This is exactly what happens in the fast
phobia (theater) technique, just without explicitly eliciting the
memory and dissociating from the experience.  All the fast phobia
technique ultimately does is scramble the mental representation
of the phobic cue(s) so that their effect is neutralized.

There's another interesting connection between NLP and EMDR.
EMDR was discovered/created/? by Francine Shapiro, who is at the
Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, CA.  MRI studies
various sorts of Brief Therapies.  Some of the people who are
connected (at least on a theoretical basis) with both NLP and MRI
are Gregory Bateson, Virginia Satir, and Paul Watzlawick.  If you
want to know more about MRI, their web page is: http://www.mri.org

Hope this is useful,

Brent