{"podcast":{"title":"The EMDR Doctor Podcast","slug":"the-emdr-doctor-podcast-7043696","podcast_index_feed_id":7043696,"rss_url":"https://app.kajabi.com/podcasts/2147791816/feed","website_url":"https://www.emdrdoctor.com.au/podcasts/the-emdr-doctor-podcast","image_url":"https://kajabi-storefronts-production.kajabi-cdn.com/kajabi-storefronts-production/file-uploads/site/2147931124/podcasts/de44215-15a0-d14-ecb-c83ddbc37a7c_emdrdoctor_podcast_tile.png","author":"Dr Caroline Lloyd","episode_count":68,"summary":"Dr Caroline is a Mental Health GP who is passionate about helping her clients resolve their difficult memories using EMDR. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing is an amazingly effective therapy for trauma and difficult memories. This podcast demystifies EMDR. Dr Caroline shares all her knowledge and experience to help you decide if EMDR is for you, and how best to get the most from your EMDR journey.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-emdr-doctor-podcast-7043696"},"episode":{"title":"64. EMDR Rethinking Personality Disorders","slug":"64-emdr-rethinking-personality-disorders","published_at":"2026-03-06T02:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-emdr-doctor-podcast-7043696/64-emdr-rethinking-personality-disorders","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-emdr-doctor-podcast-7043696","url":"https://www.emdrdoctor.com.au/podcasts/the-emdr-doctor-podcast/episodes/2149174909","audio_url":"https://app.kajabi.com/podcasts/medias/2149174909.mp3","summary":"This episode explores a new way of understanding personality disorders. Instead of seeing them as fixed and lifelong conditions, emerging research suggests they may actually be adaptive responses to early trauma. We discuss how personality traits develop through both genetics and early experiences, and how difficult childhood environments can lead to protective beliefs and coping patterns that later appear as personality disorders. Drawing on recent training with EMDR experts Ad de Jongh and Suzy Matthijssen, the episode highlights promising studies using EMDR combined with exposure therapy to treat trauma underlying personality disorders. Early research shows significant improvements, with many clients no longer meeting diagnostic criteria after intensive or short-term treatment. The episode emphasises that by targeting the traumatic memories and negative self-beliefs at the core of these patterns, therapy can help people move beyond long-standing defences and develop healthier, more adaptive ways of relating to themselves and the world. It offers hope that personality disorder diagnoses do not have to last a lifetime and that effective trauma treatment can lead to meaningful change.   In This Episode, You’ll Learn: • How personality traits are partly inherited, but are shaped by early life experiences. • How, traditionally, personality disorders have been viewed as fixed and difficult to treat, often requiring many years of therapy. • How, new research suggests personality disorders may actually be adaptive responses to trauma, especially trauma experienced in childhood. • How, these disorders may be built on deep negative beliefs about oneself, which lead to protective behaviours or defences. • If the trauma and negative beliefs are treated, the defensive…","meta_description":"This episode explores a new way of understanding personality disorders. Instead of seeing them as fixed and lifelong conditions, emerging research suggest…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":879,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-emdr-doctor-podcast-7043696/episodes/64-emdr-rethinking-personality-disorders/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-emdr-doctor-podcast-7043696/64-emdr-rethinking-personality-disorders.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}