Brainspotting Resources | PTSD, Anxiety, Stress

Books on Brainspotting

Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change – by D. Grand
This is Your Brain on Sports: Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good! – by D. Grand and A. Goldberg

Dr. David Grand explains Brainspotting – a 23-minute video
What is a Brainspot? – a 2-minute video
Why Choose Brainspotting? – a 3-minute video
Brainspotting Hypothesis – Dr. David Grand gives a comprehensive 43-minute presentation (with a parallel Spanish translation) and explains how and why Brainspotting works
The central website for Brainspotting information – Brainspotting.com
Two therapists show how Brainspotting therapy works for treating PTSD in a 4-minute video explanation
An article about using Brainspotting to treat athletic problems – Podium Sports Journal – Brainspotting

Listed below are some of the recently published studies on Brainspotting.

Here is a 2016 report by Newtown- Sandy Hook Community Foundation that compares effectiveness of different types of therapies offered to the community. “The mission of the Foundation is to devote itself to furthering and supporting operations and activities which address the short-term and long-term unmet needs of individuals and the Newtown community arising from the tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012.”

“This is a clinical experimental comparison study in which three therapeutic intervention techniques – are discussed for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), with respect to a control group (CG). The first technique is based on cognitive behavioral therapy programs (CBT), the second one in the techniques of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and the third one consisting in location techniques involving relevant eye position and the neural network activated to access to the particular spot where the problem is fixed in the brain” (Brainspotting – BSP). Research Director: Dr. Javier Anderegg.

A preliminary study of the efficacy of Brainspotting – a new therapy for the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Journal for Psychotraumatology, Psychotherapy Science and Psychological Medicine, 2014.

“We set out hypotheses which are based in the technique of Brainspotting but have wider applicability within the range of psychotherapies for post-traumatic and other disorders. We have previously suggested mechanisms by which a Brainspot may be established during traumatic experience and later identified in therapy.” By: F.M. Corrigan a,b, D. Grand, R. Raju. Medical Hypotheses 84 (2015) 384–394

“This study aims at determining the efficacy of the new therapy approach Brainspotting (BSP) in comparison to the established Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) approach for the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).” By: Anja Hildebrand, David Grand, Mark Stemmler. Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 5 N.1 (2017)

“Brainspotting is a psychotherapy based in the observation that the body activation experienced when describing a traumatic event has a resonating spot in the visual field. Holding the attention on that Brain- spot allows processing of the traumatic event to flow until the body activation has cleared. This is facilitated by a therapist focused on the client and monitoring with attunement.” Medical Hypotheses 80 (2013) 759–766

Case Study, A Cure for the Yips. “In Playing Scared: A History and Memoir of Stage Fright, Sara Solovitch tells the story of Triple Crown racetrack announcer Tom Durkin, who decided to quit after a reporter whimsically asked, “What’s it like to be one easy mistake away from being a national joke?” Though I’m not convinced that Brainspotting provides direct access to areas “deep in the brain” or that unprocessed childhood memories are the root cause of most performance fears, Grand has certainly created a masterful embodiment of the factors considered essential to therapeutic success.” Psychotherapy Networker ; Washington Vol. 39, Iss. 6, (Nov/Dec 2015)