xenia’s Reviews > Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation > Status Update
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Episodic memory captures harm, semantic memory the response to harm. Therapy traces present behaviours, thoughts, and feelings to intense, evocative episodic memories, so that the semantic schema can come into conscious knowledge. "If I act this way, I'll be abandoned, therefore I must act this other way". There is a problem, there is a solution. Intervention only comes after such knowledge is fully integrated.
— May 30, 2026 04:11PM
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Am struck by how much this mirrors Elizabeth Howell's dissociation-based phrase treatment. Counteractive methods (emotional/attentional regulation) diminish symptoms, but don't erase them. Trauma work involves reactivating emotional schemas (parts, maladaptions) and introducing contradictions to cause a mismatch between frame and reality. This must be repeated until the schema is rewritten completely.
— May 18, 2026 11:46PM
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May 30, 2026 04:15PM
As with parts therapy, something once seen as pathological, is reframed as adaptive. The first step to healing is destigmatisation.
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