Francine Shapiro

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Francine Shapiro (born February 18, 1948 in Brooklyn , New York City , † June 16, 2019 ) was an American literary scholar , psychologist and founder of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). This psychotherapeutic procedure is now recognized worldwide for the treatment of trauma and anxiety disorders.

biography

Francine Shapiro was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a mechanic and taxi operator, Daniel Shapiro, and his wife, Shirley. She had a brother and two sisters, her sister Debra died at the age of nine when Francine Shapiro was 17 years old.

Professional background

After completing her Masters in Literature from Brooklyn College, Francine Shapiro worked as a high school English teacher in Brooklyn. During a sabbatical from school, she worked as an assistant at New York University (NYU) and began a dissertation in English literature. After successful cancer treatment, she moved to San Diego, California. There she was initially director of the Human Development Institute and the seminar company MetaVox and first published an article on eye movements from the perspective of NLP . She then enrolled as a PhD student at the Professional School for Psychological Studies in San Diego, California, specializing in clinical psychology. In 1988 she received her doctorate there with a thesis on the subject of “Efficacy of the multi-saccadic movement desensitization technique in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder”, in which she successfully tested N = 22 test subjects after war or sexual trauma with one eye movement stimulation session Had dealt with abuse. In 1988 she began giving lectures on this method, in 1989 she joined the Mental Research Institute , and in 1990 she began training in the method for healthcare professionals, which was then renamed EMD (for Eye Movement Desensitization). In 1991 Shapiro finally renamed the therapy method EMDR and founded the EMDR Institute in Watsonville, California. In 1995 her textbook "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Basic Principles, Protocols and Procedures" was published for the first time.

Functions

Awards

  • 1993: Distinguished Scientific Achievement in Psychology Award (presented by the California Psychological Association)
  • 1996: Award honoring Humanitarian Assistance (EMDR International Association)
  • 2002: International Sigmund Freud Prize for Psychotherapy

Fonts (selection)

  • Efficacy of the eye movement desensitization procedure in the treatment of traumatic memories. 1989: Journal of Traumatic Stress Studies 2: pp. 199-233
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures. New York 1995. ISBN 1-57230-672-6
  • (German edition :) EMDR - basics and practice. Handbook for the treatment of traumatized people. Paderborn: Junfermann 1998. Second revised edition 2013: ISBN 978-3-87387-873-0 .
  • EMDR and the anxiety disorders. 1999: Journal of Anxiety Disorders 13: 35-67
  • with MF Solomon, RJ Neborsky, L. McCullough, M. Alpert, D. Malan: Short-Term Therapy for Long-Term Change. New York 2001
  • (Ed.) EMDR as an Integrative Psychotherapy Approach: Experts of diverse orientations explore the paradigm prism, Washington: APA 2002. ISBN 1-55798-922-2
  • (together with MS Forrest) EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Trauma, NY 1997. ISBN 0-465-04301-1
  • (German edition :) EMDR in action. Paderborn: Junfermann 1998.
  • Handbook of EMDR and Family Therapy Processes. New Jersey 2007. ISBN 0-471-70947-6
  • Getting past your past
    • (German edition :) Getting free from the past. Trauma self-help using the EMDR method . From the American. by Karin Petersen. Kösel, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-466-30986-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ emdria.de. Retrieved June 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ https://www.degpt.de/aktuelles/aus-der-degpt/nachruf-francine-shapiro-degpt.html
  3. ↑ Stumm / Pritz et al .: Personal Lexicon of Psychotherapy, Vienna, New York 2005, 438–440
  4. ↑ emdria.omeka.net. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ emdria.omeka.net. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Shapiro, F. (1985). Neuro-linguistic programming. The new success technology. Holistic Life Magazine, 2, pp. 41-43.
  7. ↑ Shapiro, F. (1988). Efficacy of the multi-saccadic movement desensitization technique in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Unpublished dissertation. San Diego, CA: The Professional School of Psychological Studies.
  8. ↑ Maxfield, Louise. (2009). EMDR milestones: The first 20 years. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research. 3. pp. 211-216. 10.1891 / 1933-3196.3.4.211.
  9. ^ Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., Psychology Award
personal data
SURNAME Shapiro, Francine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist and founder of EMDR
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2019