The ideas are drawn from acupressure and acupuncture. Some people call this approach acutapping. A person taps certain points while working on some psychological issue. Once the acutapping is complete, the subject re-enters the room and faces the animal again. Baker says so far, the treatment seems promising.
Problem is, nobody's showing up.
It turns out that I didn't anticipate the obvious - people who are afraid of something like this, they don't want to do anything about it but avoid the object. You see, I hate spiders. But even though my arachniphobia makes me avoid dark closets, I wasn't going to leave without giving this a shot. Step one, Hammarley versus Matilda. Step two, emotional freedom.