Re:Bilateral stimulation

The question of why bilateral stimulation works is indeed the million dollar question. The lack face validity (the way in which something seems reasonable on the face of it)make many people extremely skeptical.

In addition to the information Dr. Paulsen mentioned above, another interesting piece of data has to do with phantom limb pain (the experience of pain or sensation in a arm or leg that has been amputated). Drs. Sandra Wilson and Bob Tinker have done some very interesting research that shows that phantom limb pain is associated with changes in neurologic function (as measured or demonstrated with neuro-imaging techniques) and that EMDR can successfully resolve the phantom limb pain and that when they then do the same neuro-imaging procedure, that changes in neurologic function is reversed. The data is very preliminary, but it would seem to at least suggest that EMDR has changed neuroloic organization and as a result eliminated phantom limb pain.

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