Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation

Psychotherapy  that regularly yields liberating, lasting change was, in the last  century, a futuristic vision, but it has now become reality, thanks to a  convergence of remarkable advances in clinical knowledge and brain  science. In Unlocking the Emotional Brain, authors Ecker, Ticic and  Hulley equip readers to carry out focused, empathic therapy using the  process found by researchers to induce memory reconsolidation, the  recently discovered and only known process for actually unlocking  emotional memory at the synaptic level. Emotional memory's tenacity is  the familiar bane of therapists, and researchers have long believed that  emotional memory forms indelible learning. Reconsolidation has  overturned these views. It allows new learning to erase, not just  suppress, the deep, unconscious, intensely problematic emotional  learnings that form during childhood or in later tribulations and  generate most of the symptoms that bring people to therapy. Readers will  learn methods that precisely eliminate unwanted, ingrained emotional  responses―whether moods, behaviors or thought patterns―causing no loss  of ordinary narrative memory, while restoring clients' well-being.  Numerous case examples show the versatile use of this process in AEDP,  Coherence Therapy, EFT, EMDR and IPNB.