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Chapter 24: Legacy Attuned EMDR Therapy: Toward a Coherent Narrative and Resilience

DOI:

10.1891/9780826163424.0024

Authors

  • Robinson, Natalie S.

Abstract

Legacy attuned eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy contains narrative, transgenerational, and integrative components. It allows clinicians to access and reprocess transgenerational associations and memories that negatively impact current lives. Legacy attuned EMDR therapy promotes the reprocessing of distilled associations that may have originated from family or cultural narratives, media, or photographic images of the distant past. Client history for Legacy attuned EMDR therapy is expanded with the use of a multi generational family genogram. The specific steps of Legacy attuned EMDR therapy are:refocus on the genogram, set-up for legacy reprocessing, reprocess the distant past, manage disturbances, review life with timeline reprocessing, codevelop a coherent life narrative, and elicit and install a legacy informed core positive cognition (CPC). Legacy attuned EMDR therapy can enrich the therapeutic process and stimulate the deeply rooted resilience that humankind needs for well-being and to pass down to descendants.