EMDR and Emotional Processing: Working with Severely Dysregulated Patients

This is a book aimed at therapists who work with pathologies within the spectrum of trauma and, who use as an approach, the methodology proposed by EMDR. But, as the author rightly warns, it is not a book of protocols, something about which Anabel Gonzalez has been openly skeptical. In recent years, multiple protocols have proliferated in EMDR geared towards each specific situation, particular symptom, or specific pathology that the therapist might face. Protocols are useful insofar as they allow us to delve into specific issues, but when they are understood as an end in and of themselves, they undermine therapy. The belief that no protocol should distract from the therapist's presence or lead to a simplification of cases is one of the explicit and implicit claims of this book. And indeed, to that end, this text is of particular use. Far from creating specific protocols for emotional blockages, or generating algorithms to address different patterns of emotional dysregulation, this