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In Unlocking the Emotional Brain, authors Ecker, Ticic, and Hulley equip readers to carry out focused, empathic therapy using the process found by researchers to induce memory reconsolidation, the recently discovered and only known process for actually unlocking emotional memory at the synaptic level. Emotional memory’s tenacity is the familiar bane of therapists, and researchers have long believed that emotional memory forms indelible learning. Reconsolidation has overturned these views. It allows new learning to erase, not just suppress, the deep, uncon- scious, intensely problematic emotional learnings that form during childhood or in later tribulations and generate most of the symptoms that bring people to therapy. Readers will learn methods that precisely eliminate unwanted, ingrained emotional responses—whether moods, behaviors or thought patterns—causing no loss of ordinary narrative memory, while restoring clients’ well-being. Numer- ous case examples show the versatile use of this process in AEDP, Coherence Therapy, EFT, EMDR, and IPNB. Bruce Ecker and Laurel Hulley are the originators of Coherence Therapy and coauthors of Depth Oriented Brief Therapy: How to Be Brief When You Were Trained to Be Deep—and Vice Versa, the Coherence Therapy Practice Manual and Training Guide, and the Manual of Juxtaposition Experiences: How to Cre- ate Transformational Change Using Discon! rming Knowledge in Coherence Therapy. Ecker is codirector of the Coherence Psychology Institute, has taught for many years in graduate programs, and has been in private practice near San Francisco since 1986. Hulley is director of education and paradigm development of the Coherence Psychology Institute and co-founder of the Julia Morgan Middle School for Girls in Oakland, California. Robin Ticic is director of training and development of the Coherence Psychol- ogy Institute and is in private practice near Cologne, Germany, specializing in trauma therapy and clinical supervision of trauma therapists. She has served as a psychologist for the Psychotraumatology Institute of the University of Cologne for many years, provides a low-fee counseling service for parents, and is author of the parenting guide How to Connect with Your Child, published in English and German. Unlocking the Emotional Brain Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation Bruce Ecker Robin Ticic Laurel Hulley First published 2012 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 27 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2012 Taylor & Francis The right of the editors to be identi! ed as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identi! cation and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Ecker, Bruce. Unlocking the emotional brain : eliminating symptoms at their roots using memory recon- solidation / Bruce Ecker, Robin Ticic, and Laurel Hulley. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Emotion-focused therapy. 2. Emotions. 3. Memory. 4. Psychotherapy. I. Ticic, Robin. II. Hulley, Laurel, 1947- III. Title. RC489.F62.E35 2012 616.89’14—dc23 2012010794 ISBN: 978-0-415-89716-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-89717-4 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-80437-7 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by EvS Communication Networx, Inc.