Francine Shapiro
Francine Shapiro, PhD, is an United States|American psychologist who is the originator and developer of EMDR, which is an acronym for 'Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing'), a form of psychotherapy that was developed to resolve symptoms resulting from traumatic life experiences.
In 1987 she observed, during a walk in a park, that moving her eyes seemed to reduce the stress of disturbing memories. Based on these initial observations she developed standardized procedures to maximize these effects, conducted further research and published a randomized controlled study in 1989 describing beneficial results. EMDR is recommended as a front line treatment for trauma in numerous international practice guidelines.[1]
Francine Shapiro holds a degree from the Professional School of Psychological Studies, which is now defunct and lacked accreditation.[2]
Shapiro is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, Executive Director of the EMDR Institute, Watsonville, CA, and founder and President Emeritus of the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs, a non-profit organization that coordinates disaster response and pro bono trainings worldwide. She is a recipient of the International Sigmund Freud Award, for distinguished contribution to psychotherapy, of the City of Vienna, the American Psychological Association Division 56 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Practice in Trauma Psychology, and the Distinguished Scientific Achievement in Psychology Award presented by the California Psychological Association.
Shapiro was designated as one of the “Cadre of Experts” of the American Psychological Association & Canadian Psychological Association Joint Initiative on Ethnopolitical Warfare, and has served as advisor to a wide variety of trauma treatment and outreach organizations and journals. She has been an invited speaker at psychology conferences worldwide and has written and co-authored more than 60 journal articles, chapters, and books about EMDR. She is a licensed clinical psychologist currently residing in Northern California.
Notes
- ↑ http://www.emdrhap.org/emdr_info/researchandresources.php
- ↑ Some sources thus claim that her degree can be considered 'non -accredited'
Publications
- Books
- Shapiro, F (2001) Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures. Guildford Press. ISBN 1-57230-672-6
- Shapiro, F (Ed.) (2002) EMDR as an Integrative Psychotherapy Approach: Experts of Diverse Orientations Explore the Paradigm Prism. APA. ISBN 1-55798-922-2
- Shapiro, F & Forrest, M S (2004) EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Trauma . Basic books. ISBN 0-465-04301-1
- Shapiro, F., Kaslow, F., & Maxfield, L. (Eds). (2007) Handbook of EMDR and Family Therapy Processes. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-70947-6
- Solomon, M.F., Neborsky, R.J., McCullough, L., Alpert, M., Shapiro, F., & Malan, D. (2001) Short-Term Therapy for Long-Term Change. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-39370-333-9
