If you’ve ever felt stuck or blocked using EMDR with client complexity, this could be the support handbook for you.

Unleash your EMDR: Release the Magic in this 2024 update introduces the fundamental principles of what's becoming known internationally as attachment-informed (ai-) EMDR.

Although the Amazon blurb says published 2022, the version you're seeing here is the latest one (Jan 2025), pending a further update as proper second edition, with redesign etc but same content.

Including extended frameworks for Intergenerational Trauma, Dreams and Parts in text as well as image format, the handbook covers the basics of Mark Brayne's popular “Unleash Your EMDR” online training workshops.

It brings together in simple and practical form the key elements of what - building on the pioneering ideas of EMDR's luminaries from Shapiro (of course) to Jim Knipe and Laurel Parnell - the author has found game-changingly useful in his own practice and training, especially with more complex, attachment-disordered clients.

Ai-EMDR embraces the creative, the imaginal, the intuitive and the transpersonal, and the dynamics which, as any good EMDR therapist will know from their own practice, can at times make EMDR feel almost magical in its capacity to rewire old stories and patterns.

When working with complexity (and let’s face it, that’s mostly what we do in EMDR), the ai-EMDR approach helps identify where, in the absence of appropriate childhood attachment (or the presence of dysfunctional attachment), the inevitable ruptures of our clients' childhoods were not repaired, outlining in practical and detailed terms how to reprocess and rewire these stories in EMDR's Phase 4.

The questions this handbook helps the EMDR therapist explore are these:

1. How did this person get to be this way? (What’s their presenting story REALLY about?)
2. What – where, how, with whom, and in what context - did they learn early in life to do (emotionally, behaviourally, cognitively) to manage their emotions and self-soothe?
3. What therefore are the patterns that need, in EMDR, to be identified, targeted and rewired.
4. And above all, how is that work best done.

Colleagues having difficulty with the text, or wishing to get in touch directly, are very welcome to do so via our website (search Brayne, EMDR, Unleash and EMDR Focus.) We'll be delighted to hear from you and provide a link where key interweaves and frameworks can be downloaded and printed at your end.

Growing organically as EMDR Focus workshops have developed over nearly 10 years now, this doesn't pretend to be the world's most perfect book on EMDR.

Also, despite being a former BBC foreign correspondent who once wrote for a living, and also now with a later-life diagnosis of autism that explains a lot, the author finds writing books MUCH harder than a 60-second despatch for the BBC.

Unleash Your EMDR therefore remains a work-in-progress, aiming to capture what is proposed as a revolutionary, indeed game-changing approach to EMDR, particularly as it relates to case conceptualisation and target identification and "rewiring" the past.

Noting (Jan 2025) that there's a one-star review down below, while all reader reactions are of course welcome, if the book is found to be really that bad, please do let the author know directly (Google Mark Brayne EMDR...). There's much that needs updating and improving in a revised new edition, and also we'd be keen to see if there's anything that could be offered to mitigate a reader's negative experience.