Unlocking the Emotional Brain Quotes

“Emotional memory converts the past into an expectation of the future, without our awareness, and that is both a blessing and a curse.”
― Bruce Ecker, Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation

“We have seen that when an emotional learning or schema is the
underlying cause of a therapy client’s presenting symptom, the
schema can be retrieved into direct, explicit experience and then
profoundly unlearned and dissolved by the same sequence of
experiences that neuroscientists identified in reconsolidation
research”
― bruce ecker, Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation

“A fundamental feature of the symptom coherence model of symptom production is the recognition that the suffering due to a functional symptom is actually the lesser of two evils - the other, greater evil being the suffering that is unconsciously expected from not having the symptom.”
― bruce ecker, Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation

“Memory research that supports a non-pathologizing, coherence-based model of symptom production in the wide range of cases where symptoms are generated by emotional memory. This is the central perspective of the Emotional Coherence Framework.”
― Bruce Ecker, Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation

“Memory research has established that learnings accompanied by strong emotion form neural circuits in subcortical implicit memory that are exceptionally durable, normally lasting a lifetime.”
― Bruce Ecker, Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation

“Table 3.1 Steps of clinical process for using new learning to nullify or update an existing emotional learning”
― Bruce Ecker, Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation