“…Despite EAET's effectiveness, little is known about the mechanisms by which EAET achieve its effects. In theory, emotional processing is a key mechanism (Lumley and Schubiner, 2019), as deficits in emotional processing have been identified in patients with chronic pain and IBS (Baker et al, 2010;Esteves et al, 2013;Phillips et al, 2013;Gay et al, 2019), and problems in emotional processing have been found to mediate the association between childhood adversity and the development of psychiatric (Chung and Chen, 2017) and somatic symptoms (Mozhgan et al, 2020). Facets of emotional processing, such as emotional differentiation, naming, experiencing, tolerating, and expression, are believed to be a core mechanism in psychodynamic treatments of certain conditions (Messer, 2013;Høglend and Hagtvet, 2019).…”