Integrating the latest in attachment theory and research into the use of EMDR. Attachment is one of the hottest theoretical areas in psychotherapy today. It has been applied to a number of different issues-parenting, eating disorders, and addictions-and integrated into many other protocols, including family therapy and trauma therapy. Here, for the first time, EMDR leader and innovator Laurel Parnell describes how to incorporate an understanding of attachment theory into the use of EMDR to help clients suffering from relational trauma and other attachment deficits. Contents: Acknowledgements Forewordby Daniel J. Siegel Introduction Part I: Overview 1. Laying the Groundwork 2. The Five Basic Principles of Attachment-Focused EMDR 3. Therapist Characteristics and Skills for Attachment Repair Part II: Healing Resources 4. The Four Most Important Resources 5. Creating New Parents and Repairing Developmental Deficits 6. Case Histories of Repairing Developmental Deficits 7. Love Resources 8. Additional Attachment-Repair Resources Part III: Using EMDR 9. Creating the Safe Therapeutic Container 10. Case Example: Preparing a Client with Severe Attachment Trauma for EMDR by Holly Prichard 11. Creating Targets and Modifying the Protocol 12. Reevaluation and the Pacing of Treatment 13. Bringing an Attachment Focus to Desensitization 14. Using Interweaves to Unblock Processing 15. Five EMDR Sessions Demonstrating the Use of Interweaves to Repair Attachment Trauma Part IV: Case Examples 16. Using AF-EMDR as an Adjunctive Therapist to Treat Lifelong Depression, Developmental Neglect, and Attachment Wounding by Holly Prichard 17. AF-EMDR with a Young Woman with Eating Disorders, PTSD, Anxiety, and Early Attachment Trauma by Elena Felder 18. Brief AF-EMDR with a Client Experiencing Panic Attacks, Depression, and Stalking Behavior by Rachel Howard About the Author: Laurel Parnell, Ph.D., is a psychologist, consultant and EMDR® trainer. She is the author of two previous books on EMDR®, EMDR® in the Treatment of Adults Abused as Children and Transforming Trauma: EMDR® as well as articles and a book chapter. Since 1991, Parnell has immersed herself in the practice and development of EMDR® and has trained thousands of clinicians in the United States and abroad. |