 | Shapiro’s third-edition manual presents EMDR as an eight-phase protocol: history, preparation, assessment, desensitisation, installation, body scan, closure, re-evaluation. The adaptive information processing frame treats poorly integrated memory as the driver of present distress — bilateral stimulation is the trademark procedural element, not the whole treatment. Shapiro, F. (2017) · 3rd ed. · Guilford Press · ISBN 9781462527648 |
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Core science
Clinical manual and training standard for EMDR — widely used in trauma care with a mixed but growing evidence base. Mechanism debates continue (memory reconsolidation vs contextual updating vs procedural elements). Use as protocol vocabulary for resource installation and phased trauma work — not self-administered bilateral work without training.
Application
Open when Safe place or resource imagery needs a named clinical protocol behind installation and titration — or when reading The Body Keeps the Score and you want the EMDR-specific spine van der Kolk references. Club reps stay in preparation and imagery doctrine; this volume is the specialist manual.