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

by Bruce Ecker

The erasure of an emotional learning is the dissolution of certain constructs in use by the emotional brain, and this dissolution occurs only when these constructs receive such a direct and decisive disconfirmation through vivid new experience that the emotional brain itself recognizes and accepts the disconfirmation of its own constructs. In those moments of disconfirmation, what had seemed real is finally recognized as being only one’s own fallible constructs. Only upon their experiential disconfirmation are the constructs that make up emotional learnings recognized by the individual as constructs, rather than reality. The result of construct dissolution is a fundamental change in one’s experience and perception of the world. Something that seemed self-evidently true about the world no longer seems true at all.