I would have to take more time to read up on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). The wikipedia intro to it isn't fully favorable, sadly.
And agreed that "severe" cases are almost certainly special cases that should be treated as such. PTSD would almost certainly always qualify as severe?
But the idea that people have "in the womb" trauma just feels patently silly.
For an extensive critical review on research on prenatal trauma (“in the womb”) and theories around it, see Philipp Ployés “The Prenatal Theme in Psychotherapy”, available on libgen. Especially in the past 20 years with improved ultrasound, you can view a lot of what is going on inside, and reason about it. Of course there is no way to fully prove it, but the scientific consensus definitely is that factors like stress of the mother or substance abuse have a long-lasting and measurable negative effect on the child.
Stress of mother and substance abuse is very different from things like "cord wrapped around you." Similarly, some people have the cord literally cut off circulation and such. That is different, as well.
“Cord wrapped around you” can be seen in ultrasound and you can deduce level of stress from amount of movement/lack of movement of fetus. They can be seen to react to outside stimuli from very early on. Agree that it sounds questionable at first to come from symptoms 30 years later to some prebirth trauma situation but it’s a large field of study and not unheard of that in treatment symptoms find relief once a plausible story has been identified. The goal of therapy is not to hunt for historical facts but to find relief. Maybe it’s a made up story, but if it works, who cares? That being said it’s a large and interesting field of serious study, and “trauma from cord wrapped around neck” a real thing that ideally receives treatment closely after birth.
And agreed that "severe" cases are almost certainly special cases that should be treated as such. PTSD would almost certainly always qualify as severe?
But the idea that people have "in the womb" trauma just feels patently silly.