Giants in Service of Mankind : Francine Shapiro

Finally some hope I may get past all the baggage I've accumulated over the years : Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing : EMDR.

In her book "Getting Past Your Past" she says that researchers have (since she founded the technique) found that even sounds played alternately in one ear and then the other can have the same effect. It's not understood yet, but they think it's something to do with activating the processes of the brain that work during REM sleep.