In this pioneering work, Phil Mollon explores how the insights of EMDR, energy psychology and psychoanalysis can be combined to inform and enrich one another and enable healing at a much deeper level. Drawing out how Freud's psychoanalysis was originally an energy psychology, Mollon points to ways in which some forms of contemporary psychoanalysis may be hampered by a current fashion for an excessive focus on transference rather than upon intrapsychic processing of emotional information.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), along with methods from the new field of energy psychology, enable the rapid processing and release of traumatic memories and painful emotion. Whilst both psychoanalytic and cognitive therapies are able to elicit the structures of thought and feeling that trap the individual in repetitive maladaptive behaviours, neither are very good at actually processing and transforming the troubling emotions and mental pain. Thus, traditional talking therapies may provide some insight or constructive ways of thinking, but do not alter the core patterns of dysfunctional emotional information.
Mollon outlines a bedrock resistance to psychic change - disintegration anxiety - explaining how this deepest of all terrors may be addressed in therapy. An overall model of the psychosomatic system is presented, detailing the interaction and layering between the energy system, conscious and unconscious cognition and emotion, neurobiology, and physiology. Relevant research is summarized and many clinical examples are provided in the book.
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'In the last twenty years, the treatment of phobias, generalised anxiety and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder has been revolutionised by the use of Energy Therapies, posing a major challenge to conventional treatment approaches. In his book, Dr Mollon builds a much-needed bridge between these new, highly effective techniques and the concepts of traditional psychotherapy. Practitioners from both fields have much to learn from each other and this book provides an excellent meeting ground.'- Birgitta R. Heiller, BPS Chartered Psychologist and UKCP Registered Psychotherapist.'Dr Mollon once again stimulates us with innovative and creative clinical ideas for the open-minded psychotherapist, backed by excellent clinical examples and a full review of the research.'- John Spector, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, EMDR Accredited Trainer and Past President of EMDR Association UK and Ireland'This groundbreaking book is revolutionary in its scope. It is most stimulating reading ... A seminal and turning-point contribution for psychoanalysis.'- Judith Issroff, Psychoanalyst; Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatrist and Traumatologist
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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| PREFACE |
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| CHAPTER ONE Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) emotional freedom techniques (EFT), and psychoanalysis |
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| CHAPTER TWO The waking dream: from Freud to EMDR |
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| CHAPTER THREE What happens during an EMDR session? |
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| CHAPTER FOUR The abandonment of memory, trauma, and sexuality: the excessive preoccupation with "transference", and other problems with contemporary psychoanalysis |
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| CHAPTER FIVE Disintegration anxiety: the bedrock resistance to psychological change |
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| CHAPTER SIX EMDR treatment of a travel phobia with complex traumatic roots |
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| CHAPTER SEVEN Jane: EMDR and psychotherapy with a traumatized and abused woman |
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| CHAPTER EIGHT Brief case illustrations |
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| CHAPTER NINE Using EMDR and energy methods in practice |
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| CHAPTER TEN A comprehensive model of the psycho-somatic matrix: towards quantum energy therapy |
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| CHAPTER ELEVEN Research conclusions |
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| CHAPTER TWELVE Two therapists' personal experiences |
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| REFERENCES |
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| APPENDIX I |
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| INDEX |
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Phil Mollon, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and energy psychotherapist. He is well-known as a writer and speaker on topics including shame, trauma, dissociation, self-psychology, and EMDR - and has pioneered the development of Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy. With 40 years of clinical experience, in both the British National Health Service and private practice, he has explored many different approaches, always seeking better ways of helping those who are troubled with mental health problems. His work remains rooted in psychoanalysis, whilst also incorporating neurobiological, cognitive, and energetic perspectives.
