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Bruce Ecker
Coherence and the Great Attachment
Learnings formed in the presence of intense emotion, such as core beliefs and constructs formed in childhood, are locked into the brain by extraordinarily durable synapses, and it seemed as though the brain threw away the key.
memory reconsolidation
Emotional Coherence Framework,
it is only when new learning also unwires old learning that transformational change
universal process,
Emotional memory converts the past into an expectation of the future, without our awareness, and that is both a blessing and a curse.
it makes the worst experiences in our past persist as felt emotional realities in the present and in our present sense of the future.
Memory research thus supports a non-pathologizing, coherence-based model of symptom production in the wide range of cases where symptoms are generated by emotional memory.
the story
how psychotherapy can be conceptualized and conducted in order to carry out the steps of the therapeutic reconsolidation process
key moments of transformational change
working with attachment patterns
integrative, cross-platform nature of the therapeutic reconsolidation process
examples
facilitate real change on an experiential, emotional level,
The detection of memory reconsolidation, a type of neuroplasticity or synaptic change that can erase emotional learning, was therefore both a breakthrough and a turnaround in our knowledge of learning and memory.
procedural knowledge
Such knowledge consists of schemas (Patterns, templates, or models) that have been abstracted and extracted from experience and stored in memory systems
extraordinary durability of original emotional learnings,
Selection pressures during evolution apparently crafted the brain such that any learning that occurs in the presence of strong emotion becomes stored in
specialized subcortical implicit memory circuits that are exceptionally durable
There appeared to exist no form of neuro-plasticity capable of unlocking the synapses maintaining consolidated implicit memory circuits.
“The Body Keeps the Score: Memory and the Evolving Psychobiology of Post Traumatic Stress,
emotional implicit memory as the basis of symptom
Counteracting is the nature of any communication or procedure that is understood as intended to prevent the symptom by arranging for a more desired state to occur
discovery of
were in a state of strong reactivation at the time of the shock
Reactivation of a well-consolidated, longstanding implicit memory appeared to have rendered the stored emotional learning susceptible to dissolution.
Nader et al. (2000),
Implicit memories are reactivated regularly in the course of normal (non-laboratory) circumstances, yet are generally observed to remain stable, as if locked, over long periods of time;
temporary period of de-consolidation,
It is a five-hour window during which the de-consolidated target learning is directly revisable by new learning
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relocking of synapses
process of unlocking and then relocking
“permitting reorganization of the existing memory
target emotional learning,
the therapist must first elicit accurate descriptions of (A) the symptom(s) to be dispelled and (B) the emotional learnings generating those symptom(s).
greater part of the therapeutic work.
Step C
Finding mismatch material means finding living knowledge available to the client from past or present experience that contradicts the target learning and can therefore serve as new learning that eradicates the target learning.
Symptom identification.
Retrieval of target learning.
Identification of disconfirming knowledge.
lifelong neuroplasticity.
neural circuits are changed therapeutically through new experiences,
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great plasticity in the degree of integration
personal, dynamic unconscious
