Francine Shapiro, PhD

Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., the originator of EMDR, is Senior Research Fellow at the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, and the recipient of the 1994 Distinguished Scientific Achievement in Psychology Award presented by the California Psychological Association. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Treating Abuse Today and the Journal of Traumatology , and previously has served in the Editorial Advisory Group for the Journal of Traumatic Stress . She has been an...See more

Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., the originator of EMDR, is Senior Research Fellow at the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, and the recipient of the 1994 Distinguished Scientific Achievement in Psychology Award presented by the California Psychological Association. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Treating Abuse Today and the Journal of Traumatology , and previously has served in the Editorial Advisory Group for the Journal of Traumatic Stress . She has been an invited speaker at numerous professional associations and conferences, including the 1992 American Psychological Society Presidential Symposium on PTSD and the 1995 Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals and she has contributed chapters on EMDR to a number of books. See less