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Eye Movement Desensitization of Body Image

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Alan Hassard
Affiliation:
Seven Trees Clinic, Plymouth

Extract

This single case history reports the use of eye movement desensitization, a new cognitive therapy procedure originally developed for post-traumatic stress disorder and similar problems, to treat anxieties and body image problems resulting from operation scars and a degree of physical disability. The procedure was effective within one session and subsequent improvements in behaviour and cognitions reported.

Type
Brief Clinical Reports
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1993

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