Pain Control with EMDR - Grant, Mark

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Résumé :
The 8th revised edition of this research-based manual describes how to use EMDR in the treatment of chronic pain. Includes a review of role of trauma and attachment problems in pain, neurological aspects of pain, Theoretical model of pain based on Accelerated Information Processing Model, step by step EMDR pain protocol, including detailed notes and tips for each stage, key differences between trauma protocol and pain protocol, advice about common blockages and how to deal with them, how to enhance client responsiveness to bilateral stimulation, how to develop strong affect-based resources for coping with on-going pain, adjunctive strategies and resources, assessment tools, information about dissociation and pain, numerous case-examples, and over 30 pages of photocopyable treatment aids and resources. After PTSD, pain is the most researched application of EMDR.

Biographie:
Mark Grant is an Australian psychologist/researcher with 30 years of clinical experience. He has worked extensively with survivors of all sorts of trauma and sufferers of stress-related health problems (chronic pain, fatigue, IBS etc). He has also researched the use of EMDR as a treatment for chronic pain resulting in several peer reviewed publications.Mark believes that most people know more than they think, and they just need help to recover that early-learning growth mindset that they were born with. This means strategies that are consistent with what we know about how the mind and body work - strategies which appeal to sensory-emotional aspects of brain functioning and learning. Such strategies are more intuitive, and quicker than traditional modalities that rely on insight or thinking. This can lead to surprising results - Marks Anxiety Release app, which was designed according to these principles, stimulated the first published account of an app being used to completely resolve chronic pain (in a carpal tunnel syndrome sufferer). Mark is currently co-author on two chapters regarding EMDR treatment of pain for the Oxford University Press Handbook of EMDR (2023). Mark's latest research project (2022) consists of an RCT to investigate the efficacy of a series of apps he has created to address the four main effects of PTSD; anxiety, medically unexplained pain, insomnia and damaged sense of self.