Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy on a Patient with Schizophrenia and Clinical Effects: A Case Study

The effectiveness and tolerability of trauma‐focused psychotherapies for psychotic symptoms: A systematic review of trauma‐focused psychotherapies

“…This contrasts with the other included RCT (Kim et al., 2010 ), which found no statistically significant differences on psychotic symptoms between EMDR and either of its two control conditions. The case series and case reports provide mixed evidence of small effects on specific symptom domains, particularly hallucinations (Slotema et al., 2019 ; van den Berg & van der Gaag, 2012 ) and overall symptoms (van den Berg & van der Gaag, 2012 ; Yasar et al., 2017 ). No study found a specific effect on paranoia.…”

“…Several included studies which did show a positive effect of TFPT on psychotic symptoms described clear links between trauma and psychotic symptoms in their participants (Arens, 2014;Yasar et al, 2017). Paulik et al (2019) also chose to focus their trauma intervention on traumas that appeared related to psychotic phenomena, and reported the largest effect sizes in the review (g = 0.69 for distress and g = 0.74 for frequency of voices following treatment), maintained at 3 months.…”

EMDR Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Adult Inpatient Mental Health Settings: A Systematic Review

“…This often involved access to 24-hour care from trained mental health staff. The type of usual treatments varied, and included psychotrophic medication (Kratzer et al, 2017;Oh & Kim, 2014;Proudlock & Peris, 2020;Rogers et al, 1999;Yaşar et al, 2018), group therapies, mindfulness, and individual psychotherapy (Kratzer et al, 2017).…”

“…One of the included controlled studies commented that the assessor had been blinded and therefore this study was rated higher on this domain in comparison to others (Rogers et al, 1999). In all other papers, blinding was not possible or was not reported (Cerone, 2001;Fleurkens et al, 2018;Köhler et al, 2017;Kratzer et al, 2017;Oh & Kim, 2014;Proudlock & Peris, 2020;Silver et al, 1995;Yaşar et al, 2018;Zimmermann et al, 2007). None of the included studies were able to blind the patient to the intervention status and the self-reported PTSD outcomes may have been affected by this, increasing the chance of reported bias.…”

“…This also resulted in a remission of symptoms as measured using the CAPS; this improvement was maintained at follow-up. Furthermore, Yaşar et al (2018) investigated the use of EMDR with a patient experiencing psychosis and comorbid PTSD involuntarily hospitalized; it was also found that symptoms of PTSD as measured on the CAPS and IES-R significantly improved, these findings were also maintained at follow-up.…”