From what I can find you’re right, sort of. The “sort of” is summarized here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/emdr-taking-a-closer-look/ https://www

From what I can find you’re right, sort of. The “sort of” is summarized here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/emdr-taking-a-closer-look/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/emdr-taking-a-clo... So, now to the bottom line: EMDR ameliorates symptoms of traumatic anxiety better than doing nothing and probably better than talking to a supportive listener. Yet not a shred of good evidence exists that EMDR is superior to exposure-based treatments that behavior and cognitive-behavior therapists have been administering routinely for decades. Paraphrasing British writer and critic Samuel Johnson, Harvard University psychologist Richard McNally nicely summed up the case for EMDR: “What is effective in EMDR is not new, and what is new is not effective.”