Can a simple Eye-Movement exercise ease traumatic memories?

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Present symptoms of acute stress (score between 22 and 35 on the Impact Event Scale-Revised, IES-R) and/or PTSD (higher score or equal to 36 on the IES-R), but at least present moderate to high psychological distress (score equal to or greater than 8 on the Kessler Abbreviated Psychological Distress Scale, K6); * Being in need of psychotherapeutic follow-up but not having started it yet; * Be aged between 18 and 65 years inclusive; * Speak and write French (be able to understand information and complete questionnaires independently); * Have good vision (being able to follow the movement of a white point on a screen); * Have good hearing and tactile abilities (being able to perceive auditory and tactile tones); * Have a computer equipped with a webcam; * Be informed and sign informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * Be an adult protected under guardianship or curatorship; * Be a person subject to a judicial safeguard measure; * Present a lack of autonomy implying an impossibility in terms of administering questionnaires and filling out questionnaires; * Have a vision defect implying an impossibility of visual tracking of a white dot; * Present a hearing defect and/or tactile abilities implying an impossibility of perception; * Have a neurological condition constituting measurement biases (muscular dysfunctions, perceptual dysfunctions, etc.); * Suffer from psychotraumatic and dissociative disorders of complex type (respectively evaluated with regard to the anamestistic data of the patients and with a score greater than 25 on the dissociative experiences scale (Dissociative Experiences Scale, DES); * Do not present psychological distress (score less than 8 on the Kessler Abbreviated Psychological Distress Scale, K6) ; * Have a drug or alcohol dependence; * Benefit from ongoing psychotherapeutic monitoring; * Have already benefited from psychotherapeutic follow-up or have participated in studies in the last 6 months, both involving EMDR therapy.