Effectiveness of treating depression with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing among inpatients-A follow-up study over 12 months.

ABSTRACT: Increasing prevalence of depression poses a huge challenge to the healthcare systems, and the success rates of current standard therapies are limited. While 30% of treated patients do not experience a full remission after treatment, more than 75% of patients suffer from recurrent depressive episodes. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy represents an emerging treatment option of depression, and preliminary studies show promising effects with a probably higher remission rate when compared to control-therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy. In the present study, 49 patients with severe depression were treated with an integrated systemic treatment approach including EMDR therapy that followed a specific protocol with a treatment algorithm for depression in a nat

SUBMITTER: Altmeyer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9402253 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature