Bev Ross asked Alison Miller:

I am an experienced therapist and recently started treating a woman who had been ritually abused. Is there a protocal in EMDR for this? I will buy your book. I believe this woman and three siblings were abused as well . They live behind a wall of silence. The sister disclosed to me that she was ritually abused and that she remembers graphically what happened. She explained that her sister experienced body memories.

Alison Miller There is no specific protocol for this in EMDR. Those of us who use EMDR tend to use ongoing bilateral stimulation, e.g. with the tactile probes during memory work, but the work with the personality system does better without EMDR. Sometimes the perpetrators use EMDR-like things, e.g. metronomes, so you have to be careful it is not triggering. There is a special interest group for those treating survivors within the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.

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