EMDR Forum Archive, 1999
Re: EMDR therapy in companion animals & insects
brad alford · 4/7/00 at 9:57 pm ET
In checking the board just before beginning my working vacation with my research assistants aboard my Monsanto yacht, I am DISMAYED but not miffed that now Linda joins the group, suggesting my work to be a joke. WHERE ARE ALL YOU PEOPLE COIMNG FROM? This board is a snake pit, Francine. I hope mine doesn't get like this. [I'll have my own boards next month: SWING (title tentative), COMPANION INSECT TX (confirmed), and BUG BUSTERS (comfirmed). The third board will limit posting to licensed farmers.] Well, I'll respond briefly now, but any other insults must await my May 6th return, unless friends on the board -- believers in my work -- care enough to defend bug therapy in my absence. Two brief points: (1) Linda doubts eye movements work with bugs. I clearly wrote on 04/04/2000 that bug limb rotations can substitute for eye movements when problems are encountered. The feather method noted in the same post is an adaptation to bugs. Feathers really get their attention, and sometimes scares the hell out of them. I assume this is because they are often eaten by birds. (Such anxiety induction facilitates tx., though. More on that in my upcoming manual). I'll be experimenting on various sea bugs over the next month, in this regard. Sea bugs, as I'm sure you all know, have longer appendages designed to move through water. Easier manuipulation should speed the data collection process and, more importantly, justify the yacht expense. Sea bugs are essentially equivalent to land bugs in Nebraska, the primary interest of Monsanto, except for the longer water legs. (2) sorry -- no time for the second point.....tide is going out....off to Aruba!!!
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