Revolutionizing EMDR Practice: A Groundbreaking Guide to Human Development and Traumatic Stress

By Uri Bergmann, PhD, the second edition of this seminal work incorporates fresh neuroscientific and psychological research related to human development, traumatic stress, disorders of attachment, and information processing, and its implications for EMDR practice.

New Insights into Human Development, Trauma, and Information Processing

This updated edition delivers critical new neurobiological research on procedural and emotional learning, early-acquired relational patterns, inter-corporality, and empathy. Drawing from contemporary neurosciences’ increased understanding of emotions and the significance of mirror neurons, the book demonstrates the importance of affective resonance and its effect on neuroplasticity as a prerequisite for any enduring change in cognition, behavior, and emotion.

Understanding the Interplay between Stress, Trauma, and Immune Function

The second edition also examines in further depth the relationship between stress, trauma, and immune function in regard to immunoinflammatory illnesses and the implications for their treatment. An additional 20 syndromes are examined, in addition to the 11 syndromes discussed in the first edition.

Key Features and Updates

• Delivers groundbreaking neuroscientific and psychological research related to human development, traumatic stress, attachment disorders, and information processing
• Underscores the importance of emotion as fundamental for change
• Addresses the dominance of right hemispheric communications that foster procedural and emotional learning
• Examines the implicit nature of early-acquired relational patterns, inter-corporality, and empathy
• Covers the relationship between stress, trauma, and immune function regarding immunoflammatory illnesses and their treatment

This comprehensive guide provides a neurobiological foundation that informs our understanding of human development, attachment disorders, and information processing. It examines the biological underpinnings of EMDR regarding successful treatment outcomes for attachment disorders, stress, and dissociation. The book explicates disorders as outcomes of chronically dysregulated, evolutionarily based, biological action systems and illustrates EMDR’s sensorial input to the brain as a neural catalyst that can help to repair dysfunctional neural circuitry.

Richly illustrated with neural maps, this edition is an invaluable resource for mental health professionals, researchers, and students seeking a deeper understanding of human development, traumatic stress, and the latest research in EMDR practice.

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 2nd edition (June 6, 2019)
Language: English
Paperback: 296 pages
ISBN-10: 0826172660
ISBN-13: 978-0826172662