When reworking such embedded sensory images, a process of diffusing the adrenalin charge of the compressed “trauma snapshot” is necessary in order to uncouple associations that are symptomatic. An important therapeutic technique “expands and neutralizes” this fixation and helps the person recover the multisensory experience he or she may have had prior to the threat that caused the fragmentation. The following vignette illustrates this principle of expanding the “visual aperture.”
