Uncoupling fear and allowing the normally time-limited immobility reaction to complete is, in principle, a straightforward matter. The therapist helps reduce the duration of immobility by gently diminishing the level of fear. In other words, the therapist’s job is to aid a client to gradually uncouple the fear from the paralysis, so as to gradually restore self-paced termination. In this way the (fear-immobility) feedback loop is broken; colloquially, it runs out of gas. As a client learns to experience the physical sensations of the immobility in the absence of fear, trauma’s grip is
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