EMDR&ASPERGERS

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Dear Wrong Planet inhabitants, does anyone have or had experience with EMDR?If so, how did it work?Can parents help too?learn the techniques and so?

Thanks and love to all, mamamoo

My brother did EMDR and swears by it, but it strikes me as being a bit snake-oily. Here's an article on Skeptic.com that seems to agree with what I think of it: http://www.skepdic.com/emdr.html

I tried it. It did nothing. Talking about things in more traditional psychotherapy (this is what is happening, is what I am perceiving right or wrong, how do I work with certain problems) has been more helpful.
I tried EMDR for sensory issues but that only made them worse. It seems to be no better or worse than therapy that exposes one to memories.

I looked into EMDR for treating my own PTSD, I was not aware it had any applications for treating issues related to Asperger's. The research I read indicated that EMDR showed no better outcomes than traditional psychotherapy and since my insurance would cover the latter and not the former, that's where I went.

What's EMDR?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_moveme ... processing