Francine Shapiro is a behavioral therapeutist American founder of the method EMDR (Movement of the eyes, desensitizing and reprocessing of information)

Doctor in psychology with the Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto, it discovers the E.M.D.R. in 1987. It initially applies it to a group of volunteers then to veterans of Vietnam before publishing the results in 1989 of them.

In 2002, it receives the Prix Sigmund Freud for its contribution with psychotherapy.

Publications

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: BASIC Principles, Protocols, and Procedures . Guildford Close 2001. ISBN 1-57230-672-6
• EMDR ace year Integrative Psychotherapy Approach: Experts off Various Orientations Explores the Paradigm PRISM. APA 2002. ISBN 1-55798-922-2
• EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Trauma . BASIC books 2004 .ISBN 0-465-04301-1
• Of the Eyes To cure - the Threshold 2005 - ISBN 2020637448