The EMDR as a potential accelerator of Systemic Family Therapy

Journal title RIVISTA DI PSICOTERAPIA RELAZIONALE
Author/s Esther Pedone, Arianna Casco
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/56
Language Italian Pages 11 P. 42-52 File size 190 KB
DOI 10.3280/PR2022-056003
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The use of the EMDR in many Family Therapy situations has effec-tively accelerated the resolution of several problems. The EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is defined by its same creator Francine Shapiro, as a method to access, process and bring to an adaptive resolution the memories of traumatic experiences, memo-ries that underlie the patient’s current psychological disorders. Below, we will present a clinical case of a family therapy focusing in particu-lar on a session in which, with the help of EMDR, we accompanied the mother of this family to process a trauma from the past, with the result of having a positive impact on the entire family system. What happened in a single session is surprising as this elaboration is generally ob-tained in much longer periods of psychotherapy: accelerating the elaboration processes with EMDR enhances the therapeutic process.

Keywords: EMDR, elaboration processes of trauma, family therapy.

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Esther Pedone, Arianna Casco, L’EMDR come potenziale acceleratore della Terapia Familiare Sistemica in "RIVISTA DI PSICOTERAPIA RELAZIONALE " 56/2022, pp 42-52, DOI: 10.3280/PR2022-056003