Unlocking the Emotional Brain
Memory Reconsolidation and the Psychotherapy of Transformational Change
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 448
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781032139128
- Utgivelsesår: 2024
- Bidragsyter: Ecker, Bruce; Ticic, Robin; Hulley, Laurel
This highly influential volume, now in a much-expanded second edition, delivers major advances for psychotherapy, all empirically grounded in memory reconsolidation neuroscience. A great increase of therapeutic effectiveness can be gained, thanks to a clear map of the brain''s innate core process of transformational change¿a process that does not require use of any particular system or techniques and is therefore remarkably versatile. Twenty-six case examples show the decisive ending of a vast range of major symptoms, including depression, anxiety, panic, shame, self-devaluing, anger, perfectionism, alcohol abuse, sexual aversion, compulsive eating and obesity, paralyzed self-expression, and teen ADHD¿all transformed through deeply resolving underlying disturbances such as complex trauma, lifelong oppression by systemic racism and homophobia, childhood sexual molestation, parental narcissistic domination, violent assault trauma, natural disaster trauma, and childhood traumatic alone