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

Unlocking the Emotional Brain offers psychotherapists and counselors methods at the forefront of clinical and neurobiological knowledge for creating profound change regularly in day-to-day practice. The book focuses primarily on clinical methods along with an illuminating admixture of corroboration from the brain science of memory reconsolidation. Discovered in the late 1990s, reconsolidation is the brain's only known process for actually unlocking synapses in memory circuits. This process allows the revising or even erasing of the imprinted, unconscious emotional learnings that generate the majority of clinical symptoms. With recent advances in memory reconsolidation research, we now have a far clearer understanding than ever before of the brain's own rules for how to structure therapeutic experiences that dissolve the emotional and neural roots of problematic moods, behaviors and thoughts.