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"In this clearly written book, psychologist Fred Friedberg shows both therapists and their clients how to use EMT in a wide variety of situations, from parenting fears to anxiety reactions from fibromyalgia. EMT helps sooth and calm, often very quickly. The beauty of it is that it can be used at any time, not justin a therapist's office, thus enabling people to become their own therapist. A 'must read' for both therapists and people seeking inner peace and relief from paralyzing worry, anxiety, guilt, depression, and physical pain."
--Aphrodite Matsakis, Ph.D., author, "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder" and "I Can't Get Over It"
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Here is a revolutionary new method you can use to rapidly reduce stress and pain and redirect your thinking to be more positive, rational, and optimistic. Do-it-Yourself Eye Movement Technique is the first book that teaches readers how to self-administer this breakthrough technique without th eexpense of a therapist's assistance.
Clear instructions how you how to:
Rate your level of stress
Practice the technique
Identify the most effective approach for you
Successfully alleviate stress
Case studies throughout the book help speed your progress by whoing you how the technique has been used to let go of worry and guilt, relieve anxiety and anger, and cope with the symptoms of chronic pain and other stressful conditions.
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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Magnificent!,
By A. Reader (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Do-it-yourself Eye Movement Technique for Emotional Healing (Paperback)
This simple, cheap book has changed my life profoundly. The simple tapping technique briefly mentioned within has proved to work sensationally for myself and my clients, friends and relatives. I also use the eye movement techniques but less frequently. I shall be forever grateful to the author.
The review by a Chartered Psychologist is, frankly, insulting to Amazon, the author, and readers. This is a bookstore and you are supposed to be reviewing the book, which you probably haven't even seen. Just because you've got a degree or two and are paid to work in this field doesn't give you any right to interfere in other people's lives and their ability to empower themselves. Would you prefer they turned to smoking, drinking, drugs, self-harming, bulimia and then came to see you instead? The techniques work superbly and rapidly, unlike much of the dross out there, the book is inexpensive and accessible to everyone. I doubt I'll ever read it again but it was worth thousands of times the purchase price.
12 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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Don't try this at home,
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This review is from: Do-it-yourself Eye Movement Technique for Emotional Healing (Paperback)
EMDR is a highly effective therapy for PTSD if used by a skilled practitioner with proper training. It also has the potental to cause serious psychological damage by triggering extreme traumatic memories. Training courses devote a lot of time to ways of avoiding harm to the client.
It is not an appropriate approach for a self-help book. Ian Pennicard Chartered Psychologist
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3.0 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews) 37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
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Better than EMDR,
By Liz Ellerbe - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Do-it-yourself Eye Movement Technique for Emotional Healing (Paperback)
Because I've read four other books on EMDR, including its founder's (Eileen Shapiro), I can better critique this book. But, on reflection, it has occurred to me that one wouldn't need to know all the EMDR background in order to benefit from this great handbook.
The author allows two methods: eye movement, which you can do yourself by rapidly moving your eyes far left, then far right in steady succession for three minutes. However, this gets tiring and I found the knee tapping less tiring and very effective. So far, I've diminished a severe phobia, cured my fear of heights (by imaging me on top of a stopped ferris wheel), and removed my image of anger toward a parent. I have a short list of other cures I will be doing. The phobia will probably take two more sessions. I definitely prefer my own livingroom over having a therapist watch me. Many people prefer self-hypnosis for the same reason, albeit a different type of cure. EMT has far surpassed any kind of hypnosis in my case. This book is a Godsend. 19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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Definately worth reading,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Do-it-yourself Eye Movement Technique for Emotional Healing (Paperback)
The idea of "be cautious" should apply to any books on the power of the mind... but should not prevent people from learning to use that power. I found the book to be interesting, informative, easy to read (MUCH easier than Shapiro's books) and definately recommend it. I also found that the technique for pain control works... at least for me.
28 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
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Biofeedback without electronic gadgets ?,
By Anthony R. Dickinson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Do-it-yourself Eye Movement Technique for Emotional Healing (Paperback)
The claim championed for Friedberg's Eye Movement Technique (EMT) that it may be used to "rapidly reduce emotional stress and redirect thinking in a positive, rational and optimistic way" (p.2) Perhaps permanently, and without the expense of multiple professional therapy sessions! Although cautious to advise sufferers of recurrent trauma (including PTSD, mood & personality disorders) against self-treatment as a sole pathway to emotional stress relief, Friedberg puts forth a structured set of protocols for self-paced therapeutic implementation. Much of the first half of the book is concerned with the stress, stressors, and the promise of EMT in countering stress-related tension and incapacity. Numerous theories attempting to explain the stress-reducing phenomenon following EMT sessions are too briefly discussed, with varying degrees of plausibility. For the practicing therapist or self-healer this is perhaps not a failing of the book, but I was surprised not to find a section dealing with at least the sensory physiology adjunct to applying EMT, or any discussion of its potential interaction with the psychophysiology of the stress experience it seeks to alleviate. In the 5th (?how to do it? DIY) chapter, we are introduced to the technique itself in a step-by-step fashion, the reader being led through a series of stages with clearly marked progression or repeat indicants given at each stage. One progression (perhaps surprising to the reader, especially given Friedberg's chosen title) is the suggestion that the use of oscillatory eye movements be abandoned, and replaced instead by finger movements. Indeed, the latter would appear to be Friedberg's preferred method of therapeutic interaction with his own clients (though he still calls it EMT?). This instead uses a distractive flip-flop bimanual tapping his clients' hands or shoulders whilst having them silently ponder on questions reminiscent of the therapy school?s of thought derived from Roget or Ellis. The latter half of the volume is exclusively devoted to providing case studies and extracts of actual therapy sessions from the author?s own clinical archives. Each of these later chapters deal with specific concerns (phobia, panic, chronic pain, personal and social anxieties) with accompanying procedures being retold amidst success stories, mostly with a positive outcome for the client. The most remarkable and repeated claim, however, is not for EMT providing relief across such a wide range of conditions, but in its speed of efficacy -- often within a single session, without requiring repeated administration. For those trying to help manage, or those actually suffering from the effects of pre-clinical emotional stress conditions, EMT remains worthy of investigation. I would suggest that EMT (albeit received in the form of oscillatory eye movements or bimanual tapping) might at the very least prove a good vehicle in actively disrupting recurrent ruminations and the often-repeated intrusions into ongoing thought processes familiar to the sufferer of emotional stress. Whether Friedberg?s EMT does any more than merely interrupt worrisome replays by distraction (think here of your own experience of trying to get rid of a tune that keeps ?going around in your head?), his own case archive would seem to suggest a high degree of success with the technique(s) as illustrated in this volume. Add it to the therapy bookshelf between Rational Emotive Therapy and Biofeedback |
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