Just follow my finger, can simple eye treatments cure deep-seated traumas?

At 38, Emma was walking Which? -guide to therapies: behaviourist, cognitive, hypnosis, family and psychiatry. For 18 years she had tried the lot in an increasingly despairing attempt 'to conquer her agoraphobia. So it was with considerable scepticism that she embarked last year on a new therapy - Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) - that was apparently achieving miracle cures across the United States. What made her even more wary was that It sounded as absurdly simple as it was bizarre.

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Jerome Burne

Burne, J. (1994, July 26). Just follow my finger, can simple eye treatments cure deep-seated traumas? London, England: The Independent