EMDR for Fear of Cancer Recurrence in Patients with Familial Melanoma: a Waiting List Control Trial

"EMDR is a psychological intervention that has historically been applied to the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but has since then been shown to be effective for a variety of anxiety disorders (e.g. fear of illness and specific phobia) (Logie \& de Jongh, 2014) and somatic complaints such as post-operative pain, medically unexplained symptoms and seizure-related post-traumatic stress (Dautovic, de Roos, van Rood, Dommerholt, \& Rodenburg, 2016; van Rood \& de Roos, 2009; Maroufi, Zamani, Izadikhah, Marofi, \& O'Connor, 2016).~With more than 25 randomized clinical trials, EMDR has been established as an evidence-based intervention for PTSD and PTSD symptomatology including physical symptoms and fear of future catastrophes (Balkom van et al., 2013)."