Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR: Embodied Experience and Clinical Practice

Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR- Front Cover
Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Permissions
Introduction
	Outline of the book
	Note
	References
PART I: Literature and theory
Chapter 1: EMDR—History, method, protocol, and modifications
for integration with relational psychoanalysis
	The journey
	Theory
	Protocol
	Controlled clinical outcome studies of EMDR in the treatment of PTSD
	Summary
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2: The influence of big T and small t trauma on the brain
	Clinical vignettes illustrating small t and big T trauma
	Clinical vignette: The internal landscape and its influence
	Inhibition: Precondition to thinking
	How real is an invisible phenomenon?
	Brain: The interconnection of sensory inputs, thinking, and action
	Clinical vignette: Negotiating internal and external demands
	Memory modalities
	Clinical vignette: Increasing implicit and explicit systems connections
	Elements of EMDR and the brain
	Summary
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: The relational perspective within the psychoanalytic tradition
	Roots of the relational approach
	A shift toward two-person psychology
	Clinical vignette: Embodied trauma awakened and negotiated
	Recognizing less visible influences: The analytic third
	Clinical vignette: Discovering the third
	Transference and countertransference in the relational tradition
	Dissociation on a continuum
	Abridging multiplicity
	Social constructionism, psychoanalytic feminism and queer theory’s influence on relational thinking and practice
	Clinical vignette: The gender-fluid self
	Enactment: Sharing the dissociated part of the self
	Clinical vignette: Mutual writing of the disavowed
	Summary
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Attachment: Companionship in action
	Attachment-focused EMDR
	Attachment and psychoanalysis
	The systems and transactional perspectives
	Clinical vignette: Renegotiating attachment patterns
	Affect attunement
	Clinical vignette: Mutual recognition
	The relational baby
	Nonverbal embodied dimensions
	Clinical vignette: The couch and EMDR: From hypersensitivity to relationality
	Composing new tunes
	Clinical vignette: Unwitting mirroring
	Developed and redeveloped we-ness
	Clinical vignette: Embodied experience and chaperoning of a sense of agency
	Intersubjective engagement and change
	Trauma versus fantasy
	Summary
	Notes
	References
PART II: Case studies using both relational psychoanalysis and EMDR
Chapter 5: In the trenches: Digging for lost passions—The use of
EMDR in psychoanalytic work
	Early tactile exploration
	Why EMDR with Sheila?
	Attachment and reflective function: Integrating the methods
	EMDR illustration
	Summary
	Note
	References
Chapter 6: Working in tandem
	Conceptual and clinical considerations
	Clinical illustration
	Dissociative process within a relationship
	Modified BLS in tandem
	EMDR focus for Isaac
	EMDR focus for Lee
	Integrating EMDR and relational psychoanalysis through witnessing
	Guided imagery with both partners
	EMDR in the presence of only one partner
	Playing side by side
	Summary
	References
Chapter 7: I-dentity: Is trusted love ever an option?
	Anxiety as an emotional skin
	The hardware and software of co-(l)laboration
	EMDR’s contribution to potentiating the analytic work
	Creation of I-dentity versus loyalty to a narcissistic love object
	Relational psychoanalysis: Keeping in touch, without
	Timing interventions when integrating EMDR with relational psychoanalysis
	Summary
	Note
	References
Chapter 8: EMDR in absentia—The power of “No”
	Alternative BLS: Puzzles
	The power of “No” and a new way into emotionality
	Reflection
	Summary
	Note
	References
Chapter 9: Conclusions: Reintegrating the music with the lyrics
	Summary of main ideas and applications
	Reflection and insights
	Future research
	Note
	References
Index