Handbook of EMDR and Family Therapy Processes

FRANCINE SHAPIRO, PHD, is the originator and developer of EMDR and a Senior Research Fellow at the Mental Research Institute. She is a recipient of numerous honors including the International Sigmund Freud Award of the City of Vienna for distinguished contribution to psychotherapy, and has authored more than sixty articles, chapters, and books about EMDR.FLORENCE W. KASLOW, PHD, ABPP, is Director of the Florida Couples and Family Institute. She has been president of various organizations including the International Family Therapy Association, American Board of Family Psychology, and two divisions of APA. She has received numerous awards from APA, AAMFT, and ABPP and has authored over 200 books, chapters, and articles. LOUISE MAXFIELD, PHD, is a psychologist at the London Health Sciences Centre, Canada. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario and an Adjunct Professor at Lakehead University. The author of numerous articles and recipient of various research awards, she is the founding editor of the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research.

"Francine Shapiro, Florence W. Kaslow, and Louise Maxfield have put together a book that will go a very long way toward meeting their ambitious goal of combining the EMDR and FST to 'offer the knowledge and procedures that will encourage immediate integrative clinical application.'"—A. Rodney Nurse & Peggy Thompson (PsycCRITIQUES, December 2007)

• Foreword xiiDaniel J. SiegelPreface xxiAcknowledgments xxvAbout the Editors xxviiAbout the Foreword Author xxixContributing Authors xxxiPart I Foundations1 EMDR and Case Conceptualization from an Adaptive Information Processing Perspective 3Francine Shapiro2 Family Systems Theories and Therapeutic Applications: A Contextual Overview 35Florence W. Kaslow3 Use of the Genogram with Families for Assessment and Treatment 76Sylvia Shellenberger4 EMDR Treatment of Family Abuse: Eye Movement to “I” Movement 95Marcelle ManonPart II Attachment Problems5 Treating Attachment Issues through EMDR and a Family Systems Approach 113Debra Wesselmann6 Repairing Maternal-Infant Bonding Failures 131Antonio Madrid7 Enhancing Attachments: Conjoint Couple Therapy 146Mark D. MosesPart III Marital Problems and Conflicts8 Integrating EMDR and Bowen Theory in Treating Chronic Relationship Dysfunction 169Nancy Knudsen9 Integrating EMDR and Imago Relationship Therapy in Couple Treatment 187Beverly S. Talan10 EMDR and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy for War Veteran Couples 202Nancy Errebo and Rita Sommers-Flanagan11 Sexual Trauma in Dysfunctional Marriages: Integrating Structural Therapy and EMDR 223Wilhelmina S. Koedam12 EMDR and Family Therapy in the Treatment of Domestic Violence 243Julie E. StowasserPart IV Child and Family Problems13 Complex Separation, Individuation Processes, and Anxiety Disorders in Young Adulthood 265Laura Rocchietta Tofani14 Children of Divorce 284Frances (Frankie) R. Klaf f15 The Child as Identified Patient: Integrating Contextual Therapy and EMDR 306Barry Litt16 Integrating EMDR and Family Therapy: Treating the Traumatized Child 325Anita Bardin, Joel Comet, and Deborah Porten17 Integrative Treatment of Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse344Louise Maxfield18 Medical Family Therapy 365Margaret (Peggy) V. MoorePart V Community Disasters19 Disaster Response: EMDR and Family Systems Therapy under Communitywide Stress 387Robert A. Gelbach and Katherine E. B. DavisPart VI Conclusion20 The Integration of EMDR and Family Systems Therapies 407Louise Maxfield, Florence W. Kaslow, and Francine ShapiroAppendicesAppendix A: EMDR Resources 425Appendix B: EMDR Trauma Research Findings and Further Reading 427Appendix C: Family Systems Resources 436Appendix D: A Brief History of the Field of Family Psychology and Therapy 438Florence W. KaslowAuthor Index 455Subject Index 463