Re:Tips for the Diagnostic Interview of Mental Disorders
by phkahler on Monday February 12, 2018 @09:18PM
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Studies have shown it's effective. I have seen it's effects on someone close to me. Rather spectacular, and yet not a full "cure". I was inspired enough to try it and had limited success. It doesn't work for everyone or everything. PTSD it's definitely worth giving a shot.
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Re:Tips for the Diagnostic Interview of Mental Disorders
by IntronExon on Monday February 12, 2018 @09:54PM
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From what I can find you’re right, sort of. The “sort of” is summarized here:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/emdr-taking-a-clo...
So, now to the bottom line: EMDR ameliorates symptoms of traumatic anxiety better than doing nothing and probably better than talking to a supportive listener. Yet not a shred of good evidence exists that EMDR is superior to exposure-based treatments that behavior and cognitive-behavior therapists have been administering routinely for decades. Paraphrasing British writer and critic Samuel Johnson, Harvard University psychologist Richard McNally nicely summed up the case for EMDR: “What is effective in EMDR is not new, and what is new is not effective.”
Re:Tips for the Diagnostic Interview of Mental Disorders
by Pica_soO on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @07:04AM
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Studies have shown that the studies you reference have a reproduce-result of only 39 %.
https://osf.io/ezcuj/wiki/home/
Please name the concrete study and whether it could be reproduced.