Summary of Jim Knipe's EMDR Toolbox

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#1 EMDR can be extremely effective at treating the symptoms of trauma, but it can be difficult to use it with clients who do not have symptoms of acute stress disorder or posttraumatic stress disorder. In these cases, the therapeutic procedures and understandings described in the basic EMDR training program need to be supplemented.

#2 There is not a specific diagnosis for Complex PTSD within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, but it is widely believed by therapists that dissociative disorders do, in fact, originate in traumatic events during childhood.

#3 The phenomenon of traumatization for PTSD extends beyond the criteria listed in DSM-IV and DSM-5. Events that are highly impactful, but not necessarily life-threatening, are often the origin of severe emotional problems in both children and adults.

#4 The therapist treating childhood-onset Complex PTSD needs to have additional understandings and procedures beyond those needed for treating single-incident, adult-onset PTSD.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822516250

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

EMDR can be extremely effective at treating the symptoms of trauma, but it can be difficult to use it with clients who do not have symptoms of acute stress disorder or posttraumatic stress disorder. In these cases, the therapeutic procedures and understandings described in the basic EMDR training program need to be supplemented.

#2

There is not a specific diagnosis for Complex PTSD within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, but it is widely believed by therapists that dissociative disorders do, in fact, originate in traumatic events during childhood.

#3

The phenomenon of traumatization for PTSD extends beyond the criteria listed in DSM-IV and DSM-5. Events that are highly impactful, but not necessarily life-threatening, are often the origin of severe emotional problems in both children and adults.

#4

The therapist treating childhood-onset Complex PTSD needs to have additional understandings and procedures beyond those needed for treating single-incident, adult-onset PTSD.

#5

The AIP model is based on the idea that emotional problems originate in dysfunctionally stored memories. The three groups of ovals in Figure 1. 2 represent three different ways that difficult life experience can negatively influence personality development.

#6

Grouping 1 represents a situation that is familiar to experienced EMDR therapists. The solid large oval represents an individual with a well-integrated, pretraumatic personality structure. The smaller oval, with wavy lines, represents a dysfunctionally stored memory of a particular traumatic event.

#7

The apparently normal part of the personality is a contradiction in terms. It is a collection of separate states of mind that are activated at different times and which are functioning at cross-purposes with each other.

#8

The present-oriented part of the personality is meant to keep connections with others and the world by looking normal. If a person doesn’t look normal, they are jeopardizing connections with other people, and therefore a part of the personality is tasked with monitoring adherence to external expectations of normality.

#9

The AIP model defines defense as any mental action or behavioral action that has the function of preventing intrusion from traumatized parts of self into the normal part or parts of self. In therapy, clients may use many different types of defense, such as avoidance behaviors, to prevent the emergence of disturbing feelings and memories.

#10

For some clients, the motivation to resolve