Re: EMDR and Vision Training
Dennis Strain wrote:
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> <<Quote Dave DiRito>>
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> >> Regarding the comment that people with addictions problems seem to have
> >> background with lots of trauma which eventually leads to their return to
> >> substance abuse - definitely. After searching for several years for
> >> 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.
> <<Snip>>
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> Dave ... where can we get more information on EMDR? I have
> an interest in the realtionship between vision problems
> and psycological problems.
>
> I did some work for an Optomotrist a few years ago who was
> very accomplished at diagnosing vision problems, using a
> technoque that most professionals have never heard about.
>
> I have mentioned this technique of Vision Training before
> nd had no responses ... Is anyone familiar with this method
> of evaluation and therapy?
>
> It is similiar to Sports Vision Training, if you have heard
> of that.
>
> Neither is very popular with the medical profession because
> it does not use surgery to cure the patients problem (kind
> of like the charapractor v.s. medical doctor conflicts).
>
> Dennis Strain
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Francine Shapiro has a book out which I believe is called if you
can believe it, EMDR. I saw it at my local bookstore.
Loren
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