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

by Bruce Ecker

Coherence Therapy is that far more symptoms are produced by emotional learnings than is generally recognized, and learning-driven symptoms exist entirely because they are adaptively and compellingly necessary to have, according to at least one of a person’s emotional implicit learnings for how to avoid suffering and have safety, well-being, or justice.

What unconscious, learned emotional knowledge was making it necessary for Richard to generate self-doubt at

work?

eliciting and learning the client’s reality-defining constructs involved in symptom production

a phrase used almost synonymously with the phrases pro-symptom position, symptom-requiring schema, and symptom-generating emotional learnings.

express strong relief over realizing that the symptom’s existence is part of a coherent, sensible response to what they actually experienced in life and does not mean they are defective, irrational, weak, and so forth.

symptom of avoiding relationships with people in order to be safe from abandonment,

anxiety that results from the functional, unpresented symptom of never asserting boundaries in order to be safe from a punitive withdrawal of love.