Posted by slugdoo on July 28, 2007, at 10:01:42
In reply to Re: this post and the one above of ozland » slugdoo, posted by OzLand on July 28, 2007, at 0:10:18
I am not sure how long ago you were in school, but EMDR is fairly new compaired to the older standards of treating especially PTSD. The APA had approved it for treating it and if I remember right, it is more successful than standard "desensization" such as flooding. Current research overwhelmingly shows it is very effective and it appears it is long lasting. Now keep in mind that EMDR is under 20 years old.
Now some of the controversary which shows EMDR as not effective came from studies where the EMDR treater wasn't trained in it, just read the book. There are some T"s who haven't been trained who just read the book and are practicing it. That is kinda scarey concedering how powerful EMDR can be. That why it is so important to find out if they have been trained.EMDR works on war vets who have been suffering for decades from PTSD. Most of the documented cases, showed the EMDR cleared up the PTSD compleltly, and they can put the past behind them. Which means they no longer needed the drugs to treat their PTSD. This can be very threatening to drug companies who make huge amount of money off people suffering from this. So some of the negative stuff you read about is actually from these companies.
Plus who do they work with ? psychatrists, who also get big spiffs for precribing certain meds to their patients. My cousin who is a doc, has been on many tropical vacations because of how many times he prescribed a certain med. Now he said he would have precribed the meds anyways, but when you have spiffs involved, you tend to choose the meds (when there are many choices) that give pay backs. (now of course if he knew I was posting this, it would make him mad, because I am not suppose to know this info)
When a treatment tends to work very well at treating a disorder that many have suffered years from or the treatment prevents PTSD in develping full blown from tramatic events, the use of drugs for these conditions will not be needed as much. Well that is money loss to those companies, and they will do whatever to put down such treatments. Money makes the world go around.
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