the legend of EMDR

The EMDR trypogy : 3 documentary films

The psychologist Roger SOLOMON asks Michel MEIGNANT
to think of a traumatic memory in order to conduct an EMDR session on him...

Overview

ASCLEPIA
presents a document

Filmed by Michel MEIGNANT
Edited by Mario VIANA

OVERVIEW

Genre : documentary

Country : France

Director : Michel MEIGNANT

Editor : Mario VIANA

Length : 01h07’17’’

Year : 2007

Color

NTSC or PAL

Language : Original French/English version with English/French subtitles

Starring, in order of appearance :

Michel Meignant, doctor, psychotherapist, France
Roger Solomon, psychologist, USA
Jacques Roques, psychoanalyst, France
Tony Brazil, psychotherapist, France
David Servan-Schreiber, psychiatrist, France
Francine Shapiro, psychologist, USA
Guy Sautai, doctor, France
Ehud Oren, psychologist, Israel
Sheila Salama, psychiatrist, USA
Marine de Fréminville, psychologist, Canada

SYNOPSIS

Post-traumatic effects are at the origin of human misfortunes. Some traumas can leave psychic and physical effects difficult to cure. These post-traumatic sufferings, when not properly treated, are at the origin of new violences, of new sufferings. A traumatic cycle settles, mainly responsible for the world's misfortunes.

In 1987, Francine Shapiro invented the EMDR (Eyes Movement Desensitization and Reprocesssing), a revolutionary method of psychotherapy which cures traumas by the use of rhythmic ocular movements - from left to right and from right to left.

The film shows an EMDR session practiced on Dr. Michel Meignant, the film director, himself psychotherapist, by the psychologist Roger Solomon. A real and moving therapeutic demonstration of the treatment of family traumas and the after-effects of the SHOAH !

During the film, various French, American, Canadian and Israeli practitioners, among whom Francine Shapiro, provide explanations on the discovery and the operation of the EMDR method.