According to the Adaptive Information Processing Model, which forms the basis of the EMDR theory, the brain processes each new experience with a physiologically based system.
It processes and makes functional the information that reaches it through the Internet. Information such as emotion, thought, sensation, image, sound, smell is processed and
It integrates by connecting to associated memory networks. Thus, learning about that experience takes place. The information we acquire will be in the future.
it is stored to guide our responses appropriately.
When this system works normally, it is an adaptive, adaptive mechanism as it supports mental health and human development through learning.
It is considered.
This system seems to be disrupted when traumatic or very disturbing events occur. The new information is processed and the current memory is
does not integrate into the network. In order to make sense of the experience, functional information in memory networks cannot be connected and is not suitable for mental health.
results cannot be drawn. As a result, learning does not occur. Emotions, thoughts, images, sounds, body sensations as experienced
is stored. For this reason, if some situations experienced today trigger these isolated memories, the person may relive some or all of that memory.
affected as if it were alive.
According to EMDR, behind the negative emotions, thoughts, behaviors and personality traits, maladaptive, dysfunctional,
Such memories lie unprocessed and stored in isolation. Negative beliefs about oneself (eg: I am stupid),
negative emotional reactions (fear of failing) and negative somatic reactions (belly pain the night before the exam)
but its symptoms are its present manifestations. Unprocessed memories that lead to these negative beliefs and emotions are events in the present
triggered by
In addition to major traumas such as natural disasters, major accidents, losses, war, harassment, rape,
all kinds of experiences that are experienced at age and whose effects are traumatic; negative events in family, school, work environment in daily life, exposure to violence
failures, humiliations, rejections, neglect and failures can be among the memories that cannot be processed.
EMDR is a physiologically based therapy that enables the processing of such isolated memories. It allows the brain to perform the operation that it could not do in time.
Establishing a relationship between the locked memory and other memory networks, storing information in an adaptive way by providing learning
it becomes possible. The client is no longer disturbed and sees the memory from a new and healthy perspective.
With EMDR therapy, not only the symptoms disappear. Positive beliefs and positive emotions gained by the new perspective
it also provides personal development by changing his view of himself, his relationships and the world in a positive way.
