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7. I'm sure there are other ways to do it besides bilateral stim.

Tue Jan 22, 2013, 07:56 PM

Jan 2013

I think the essence is really to provide a somewhat distracting stimulus that keeps people from escalating into traumatic states while processing the memories. Bilateral stim works, so does alpha-theta brainwave biofeedback.

Here's a link to a section in a book that discusses some of my writing on the integration of the 2 methods.

http://books.google.com/books?id=EzMhV3EpdqEC&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=peterson+neurotherapy+EMDR&source=bl&ots=xthMutFGqp&sig=96zC3DxpbyUxXXp-52fp1NTw2Ys&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FSb_UO_ILIS-qgGf3IHADg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=peterson%20neurotherapy%20EMDR&f=false

The original article doesn't seem to be online anymore. The original reference is below, but you'd probably have to get it through your library or something:

Peterson, J.M. (2000). Notes on the role of neurotherapy in the treatment of post-traumatic stress
disorder. Biofeedback, 28, 3.

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I'm sure there are other ways to do it besides bilateral stim. Jackpine Radical Jan 2013 #7