Bruce Ecker, Robin Ticic, Laurel Hulley

Unlocking the Emotional Brain (eBook, ePUB)

Memory Reconsolidation and the Psychotherapy of Transformational Change

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 aloneness and neglect.

This is a transdiagnostic, transtheoretical, lucid understanding of therapeutic action, based, for the first time in the history of the psychotherapy field, on rigorous empirical knowledge of an internal mechanism of change, and it achieves a fundamental unification of the confusingly fragmented psychotherapy field: diverse systems no longer seem to belong to different worlds, because they now form a wonderful repertoire of options for facilitating the same core process of transformational change, as shown in case examples from AEDP, Coherence Therapy, EFT, EMDR, IFS, IPNB, ISTDP, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and SE.

It's now clear why therapy systems that differ strikingly in technique and theory can produce the same quality of liberating change. Practitioners who value deep connection with their clients are richly rewarded by the experiential depth that this core process accesses, where no awareness had previously reached, whether sessions are done in person or via online video. It is an embarrassment of riches, because in addition we gain the decisive resolution of several longstanding, polarizing debates regarding the nature of symptom production, the prevalence of attachment issues, the operation of traumatic memory, the functions of the client-therapist relationship, the role of emotional arousal in the process of change, and the relative importance of specific versus non-specific factors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003859550
• Artikelnr.: 70068102

Autorenporträt

Bruce Ecker, MA, LMFT, is Co-Director of the Coherence Psychology Institute, co-originator of Coherence Therapy, and co-author of the Coherence Therapy Practice Manual and Training Guide, Depth Oriented Brief Therapy: How to Be Brief When You Were Trained to Be Deep and Vice Versa, and The Listening Book.

Robin Ticic, BA, HP Psychotherapy (Germany), is Director of Development and Training for the Coherence Psychology Institute, co-author of The Listening Book, author of the parenting guide How to Connect with Your Child, and a certified trainer of Coherence Therapy.

Laurel Hulley, MA, is co-originator of Coherence Therapy, Director of Education for the Coherence Psychology Institute, co-founder of the Julia Morgan School for Girls, and co-author of the Coherence Therapy Practice Manual and Training Guide and Depth Oriented Brief Therapy: How to Be Brief When You Were Trained To Be Deep and Vice Versa.

Inhaltsangabe

Neimeyer, Foreword. Part I: Emotional Coherence: A Unified Framework of
Behavioral, Emotional, and Synaptic Change. Maximizing Effectiveness and
Satisfaction in Clinical Practice. Memory Reconsolidation: How the Brain
Unlearns. The Focused, Deep Psychotherapy of Emotional Unlearning. Moments
of Fundamental Change: Map and Methods. Emotional Coherence and the Great
Attachment Debate. A Framework for Psychotherapy Integration. Part II:
Coherence-Focused Therapy in Practice. Sibson, A Father's Tormenting Guilt:
Deep Resolution in Seven Coherence-Focused Sessions. Martignetti, Up On
Top From Down Below: Cessation of Compulsive Drinking Using Coherence
Therapy. Geoghegan, Bypassing Bypass Surgery: Using Emotional Coherence to
Dispel Compulsive Eating. Connor: Hearing Hostile Voices: Ending Psychotic
Symptoms at Their Coherent Roots. Glossary. References. The Authors. Online
Supplements .

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Preface to the Classic Edition. Part I: Emotional Coherence: A Unified Framework of Behavioral, Emotional, and Synaptic Change 1. Maximizing Effectiveness and Satisfaction in Clinical Practice 2. Memory Reconsolidation: How the Brain Unlearns 3. The Focused, Deep Psychotherapy of Emotional Unlearning 4. Moments of Fundamental Change: Map and Methods 5. Emotional Coherence and the Great Attachment Debate 6. A Framework for Psychotherapy Integration Part II: Coherence-Focused Therapy in Practice 7. Sibson, A Father's Tormenting Guilt: Deep Resolution in Seven Coherence-Focused Sessions 8. Martignetti, Up On Top From Down Below: Cessation of Compulsive Drinking Using Coherence Therapy 9. Geoghegan, Bypassing Bypass Surgery: Using Emotional Coherence to Dispel Compulsive Eating 10. Connor, Hearing Hostile Voices: Ending Psychotic Symptoms at Their Coherent Roots. Glossary. References. The Authors.

Rezensionen

"Truly a revolutionary book." -Jaak Panksepp, PhD, founder of the field of affective neuroscience and emeritus professor of the Department of Psychology at Bowling Green State University

"Ecker's, Ticic's, and Hulley's Unlocking the Emotional Brain, like some earlier classics, draws from, adapts, and integrates the very best of the best currently available concepts and techniques into a powerful and accessible psychotherapeutic method. What sets this book apart is how these elements are mixed, matched, and delivered to each individual client. Packaged in a highly engaging read, psychotherapists of all sorts will find many resources which will enhance as well as ease their work."-Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW, author of The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

"Unlocking the Emotional Brain is one of the most important psychotherapy books of our generation. It brings the recent groundbreaking brain research on memory reconsolidation to the mental health field.... This is the first psychotherapy book to delineate the sequence of experiences the brain requires to heal. This is big, important information that is applicable across many treatment approaches. No matter how good a therapist you already are, reading this book will make you better."-Ricky Greenwald, PsyD, founder/director, Trauma Institute and Child Trauma Institute, and author of Child Trauma Handbook and EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment

"Drawing on the latest developments in neuroscience, Bruce Ecker, Robin Ticic and Laurel Hulley provide an innovative approach to psychotherapy that is very much of the 21st century. In this book filled with both groundbreaking neuroscience and provocative case examples, they describe how to tap into the reconsolidation process in therapy. If you want to know what's happening that is new in psychotherapy, this is the place to start."-Jay Lebow, PhD, clinical professor of psychology at Northwestern University and editor of Family Process





"A major contribution to the field and a must read for any therapist interested in the process of transformation and healing. Beautifully written, the authors present an elegant integration of neuroscientific findings and psychotherapy technique, resulting in a step by step method for relieving longstanding symptoms and suffering. Even the most seasoned clinician will be inspired to learn from these masters."-Patricia Coughlin Della Selva, PhD, clinical professor of psychiatry at the UNM School of Medicine and author of Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique

"Read this book and you will never do therapy in the same way again! These authors show you how to do effective therapy rooted in the science of the mind."-Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD, ABPP, distinguished professor at Governors State University and coauthor of Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy

"A refreshing and audacious book that throws open the doors and blows the dust from the corners of clinical practice.... [O]ffering a 'virtually theory-free' methodology..., the authors...add a startlingly effective process to the repertoire of every clinician [and] build powerful alliances across clinical approaches..."-Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD, author of Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change

"A transtheoretical, effective and efficient approach, nicely grounded in recent neuroscience, for deep, transformational change in pernicious emotional implicit learnings.... This is a significant 'breakthrough' book.... I recommend it most highly!"-Michael F. Hoyt, PhD, author of Brief Psychotherapies: Principles and Practices

"Imagine the founders of diverse therapy methodologies discussing how they achieve deep, lasting, transformational change and agreeing it's due to one basic process. Building on state-of-the-art neuroscience to identify that core process, the authors develop an approach that is theory-free, nonpathologizing, empathic, experiential, phenomenological, and nonspeculative, and that hones therapy while not cramping the therapist's unique contribution-an integrationist's dream!"-Hanna Levenson, PhD, author of Brief Dynamic Therapy

"A unique, creative, and insightful book that...fits with recent neuropsychological findings on how the brain can alter and even eliminate old painful memories. This book is on the forefront of books that are using neuropsychological findings to illuminate psychotherapy."-Arthur C. Bohart, PhD, professor emeritus at California State University and coauthor of How Clients Make Therapy Work