Highlights on the state of the art of EMDR therapy
Alessandro Musetti, Barbara Magnani
A recent paper by Dominguez and Lee (2017) discussed several methodological and statistical errors
made by the American Psychological Association (APA) in defining Eye Movement Desensitisation and
Reprocessing (EMDR) efficacy for PTSD as weaker than cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), cognitive
processing therapy (CPT), cognitive therapy (CT) and exposure therapy. In this commentary, starting
from the study of Dominguez and Lee (2017) we are going to express our position and state that the
limits which make the results on EMDR treatment efficacy controversial are not merely methodological
and statistical but, rather, theoretical.
Keywords
EMDR, PTSD, Theoretical limits, Treatment guidelines, Efficacy.
