Psychology Help Today

"EMDR therapy targets the unprocessed memories that contain the negative emotions, sensations and beliefs.  By activating the brain's information processing system, ... the old memories can then be 'digested.'  Meaning what is useful is learned, what's useless is discarded, and the memory is now stored in a way that is no longer damaging.... "When most people think of the unconscious, they think of psychoanalysis and movies that involve a Freudian view of psychic conflicts, and symbolic dreams and gestures.  From the psychoanalytic perspective it generally takes years of talk therapy and 'working through' to gain insight and mastery over forces that are hidden from view.  This form of therapy can have great value.  But Freud published first in 1900, and many things have changed since then.  In the past century there have been new advances in neurobiological technologies that have expanded our understanding of what these 'forces' ...