Do-It-Yourself Eye Movement Technique for Emotional Healing

If you want to deal with your stress, anxiety, phobia and panic with an easy technique, this is the book you must have. This book is very informative and helpful, written with plain language. Dr. Friedberg is a wonderful Psychologist, and all the info in book is based on his own clinical practice and experience

This book will be helpful to anyone who works in the field of counselling and therapy as well as anyone suffering from any stress or anxiety. It is based on well researched techniques.

Having someone tap ping on the shoulders work better the the hands or thighs. New book - TAPPING IN COMING IN JAN 2008

Because I've read four other books on EMDR, including its founder's (Eileen Shapiro), I can better critique this book. But, on reflection, it has occurred to me that one wouldn't need to know all the EMDR background in order to benefit from this great handbook. The author allows two methods: eye movement, which you can do yourself by rapidly moving your eyes far left, then far right in steady succession for three minutes. However, this gets tiring and I found the knee tapping less tiring and very effective. So far, I've diminished a severe phobia, cured my fear of heights (by imaging me on top of a stopped ferris wheel), and removed my image of anger toward a parent. I have a short list of other cures I will be doing. The phobia will probably take two more sessions. I definitely prefer my own livingroom over having a therapist watch me. Many people prefer self-hypnosis for the same reason, albeit a different type of cure. EMT has far surpassed any kind of hypnosis in my case. This book is a Godsend.

The idea of "be cautious" should apply to any books on the power of the mind... but should not prevent people from learning to use that power. I found the book to be interesting, informative, easy to read (MUCH easier than Shapiro's books) and definately recommend it. I also found that the technique for pain control works... at least for me.