EMDR Psychotherapy to Treat Anxious-depressive Symptoms in Breast Cancer Patient

EMDR Psychotherapy of Anxious-depressive Symptoms for Women That Present an Invasive Beast Cancer : a Faisability Study

The study will consist in an adjustment/adaptation of the "standard EMDR protocol" for cancer disease, and most particulary for women who present a breast cancer and during adjuvant therapy. It will also test the faisability of the research, with a view to adjust the calendar and the ressources to put at disposal for a randomized control trial that follow. This study will also allow to test the need and acceptibility of this new psychotherapy for the patient, and to identify facilitators and obstacles : participation/rejection ratio, inclusion rythm, adhesion of the medical staff about the project

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being a woman aged of 18 years or more
• Having a primary invasive breast cancer
• Having undergo a mastectomy for a primary invasive breast cancer
• Being able to complete the questionnaires
• Being informed of the study and having signed the informed consent
• Being affiliated to a welfare system

Exclusion Criteria:

• having contraindications to recieve EMDR psychotherapy (neurologic disorders, dissociatif states, oculomotor issues)
• Having started adjuvant treatments following surgery
• Having metastatic breast cancer
• Presenting physical polypathologies
• Having psychiatric antecedents (included anxiety and depressif disorders - assessed with M.I.N.I. (Sheehan and al., 1997)).
• Having drug or alcohol addiction
• Being placed under the safeguard of justice, guardianship or trusteeship
• Being pregnant or breast-feeding