@liminal It’s bullshit because it’s merely a repackaged technique that’s already been established, slapped with a fancy new label.
Also, her explanation for why it works is “the system may become unbalanced due to a trauma or through stress engendered during a developmental window, but once appropriately catalyzed and maintained in a dynamic state by EMDR, it transmutes information to a state of therapeutically appropriate resolution.”
....the FUCK? This says absolutely nothing.
The fact that Joseph Wolpe said it worked for “two or three patients” does not give it any kind of scientific merit. Testimony is not scientific evidence, and that is an incredibly small sample size.
Like @alive said, there’s no evidence from controlled studies that this EMDR is any better than standard exposure treatments. A researcher reviewing the evidence concluded that the eye movements, supposedly essential to the technique, do not constitute “anything more than pseudoscientific window dressing.”
@papayalily The fact that it “makes sense” because it sounds right, doesn’t mean it is. There’s simply no proof.