Francine Shapiro Library: EMDR Bibliography
History of the Francine Shapiro Library
The Francine Shapiro Library is a repository of scholarly works, presentations, and articles written about the topic of EMDR. The idea for this website began with one person’s seminal question, "How can we comprehensively house EMDR literature" Barbara Hensley, Ed.D., Past President and member of the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA), put this question to those who would listen. Northern Kentucky University (NKU) responded.
Dr. Hensley began collecting articles on EMDR during an internship under Irene Giessl, Ed.D., in the early 90s. By the year 2000, she had a five-drawer filing cabinet filled to the brim with journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, as well as conference handouts. In an attempt to organize and catalog a growing collection of valuable information, she began the arduous task of scanning all the documents she had into PDF files for archival purposes in 2004 and collecting other citations from documents that she did not have. The question no longer was "what" but "how." In 2005-2006, ongoing discussions with Scott Blech, CEO of EMDRIA, Drs. Barbara Hensley, Irene Giessl, and Marilyn Schleyer, EMDR-trained clinician and Professor at Northern Kentucky University, were directed toward "Finding a place to house the rich collection of EMDR literature." The rest is history.
The Francine Shapiro Library was launched. It has involved untold hours of dedicated work on the part of Dr. Hensley, the Northern Kentucky University’s Steely Library, IT Department, and Steely Library Research Librarian Mr. Philip Yannrella, M.A., A.M.L.S. Beginning in 2007, Dr. Hensley and Mr. Yannarella have been collaborating on continued data and document collection, data verification, and web development.
Hosted by NKU and sponsored by EMDRIA, this website serves as the first Francine Shapiro Library and is a literary testimony to a global ripple that began in Los Gatos, California in 1987 and led to healing the pain of many worldwide. Anyone who has facilitated a successful EMDR session or has experienced its results first-hand can attest to the expanding ripples that Dr. Shapiro began and continues to grow as we progress further into the future.
The Francine Shapiro Library honors Dr. Shapiro for her courage, in the face of much risk, to identify and describe the Adaptive Information Processing Model that supports the explanation of EMDR. It serves to acknowledge the clinicians and scholars, worldwide, who have put pen to paper to describe, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate EMDR and the Adaptive Information Processing Model. Finally, this website serves to honor the courageous men, women and children who have trusted the thousands of therapists educated and trained in EMDR to "bring them home."
Marilyn Schleyer, ARNP, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Chair, Faculty Affairs
Co-Director MSN Program
School of Nursing and Health Professions
Northern Kentucky University
Albright Health Center
Suite 206A
Highland Heights, KY 41099
859-572-5240
schleyerm1@nku.edu