I find it similar to psychoanalys when it addressed ego fragmentation, or going even further in early childhood others began identifying attachment and stages od development. There was always some understanding that a client would often be arrested at a particular stage of her development. Being validated in autonomy, value, or other was very commonly an issue.
I would argue that transformational change occurs when the neurophysiology is brought to a state of safety, and begins the process of returning to restoration, health, and growth.
🧠 Flash technique is designed for cases where clients, due to trauma, resist accessing traumatic memories, blocking standard EMDR protocols. 🚫 The emotional brain assigns traumatic memories an "absolute lethal status," making them terrifying to touch and suppress. 🧠 Flash technique targets the emotional learning of the memory's "absolute lethal status," not the traumatic memory's content itself. 🔄 Flash technique destabilizes the target learning through repeated flashes, creating mismatches that initiate memory reconsolidation. 📉 Dramatic reduction in Sudz level (Subjective Units of Distress) results from unlearning the expectation of the memory's absolute lethality, not changing the memory content. ❓ The effectiveness of ultra-brief and blurry memory reactivation in flash technique is explained by reactivating the expectation of absolute lethality, not the memory itself. 🤯 Dissolving the negative cognition, "I'll be engulfed and trapped in torment if I give that memory any opening at all," reduces emotional distress in flash technique. 🔄 Distress reduction post-flash technique suggests that initial distress was primarily due to the expectation of the memory's absolute lethality, not the traumatic memory's content. 🔄 An advanced version of flash technique involves the client intending to attend to the memory without conscious accessing, still achieving therapeutic effects. 🤝 Understanding memory reconsolidation is crucial in explaining the effectiveness of flash technique and other psychotherapeutic methods.
the more i listen to videos like these the more i learn, of course, BUT the more i believe that overcoming trauma or whatever other mental distress does NOT require as much work as mental healthcare workers would have folk believe; nor does healing require a therapist....the brain is plastic. individuals (who are not severely mentally challenged) have the power to reprogram/heal the brain, in time and with dedicated effort....
I ask myself if Lacan was not talking about MR when he said: "When the traumatic emotion, S1, is linked to the constellation of signifiers, S2, it automatically acquires meaning and, at that moment, the subject stops being neurotic"
I am curious about the term "neural circuits." I have heard the phrase neurons that fire together wire together. It sounds cute, but what doesn't mean? It seems to indicate a physical connection between the neurons, and we know that nothing touches between the dendrites and axons. So, what is this neural circuit? New learning patterns do form if the learning is active. What holds the neural circuits in place when attention moves to more active areas in the brain and the neural circuits are inactive? And for how long are they held in place? Memories can be recalled after decades of inactivity in the brain, yet the memory presents itself to the mind when triggered. During those extended periods of inactivity, what holds the neural circuit or patterns in place? The brain also has a function of "pruning and trimming" inactive connections between dendrites and axons. How does the brain know which idle connections should remain and which inactive connections should be trimmed and pruned? We create thousands of neural circuits daily called memories. Learning is making memories. Where is the neural circuit or pattern when the memory is inactive? Can we find one neural circuit in the brain when the memory is inactive? Where is the memory stored when the memory is inactive? Another concern is how the neural circuit or pattern is triggered into activity. There seem to be a lot of assumptions made with the theory of memory consolidation around the role of the limbic system with the question, "Well, where else could that happen? So, let's develop a theory to make it happen there." When the neural circuit is active, we see it running down the neural pathway. When it is inactive, where is it? Where are the wired-together neural circuits or patterns? The Memory Consolidation theory makes assumptions that will not pass Occam's razor. Mike
The cohérence therapy website is broken, always internal server errors on every page. Very discouraging and disappointing to find I can't access and of it...
This is a great summary of what Harlem’s too in systematic desensitization a la Wolfe. It’s not possible to be anxious and relaxed at the same time. Juxtaposition. The remarks about wiring are lovely but has the rewiring been observed? If not, then this explanation is theoretical. But if it is generally accurate (or perfectly so) then it is lawful. I like the card bit a lot. Frankly, this case study also resembles cognitive behavioral therapy - the Version that does include behaviors and is not just cognitive. It’s good therapy but is not the only expectation for behavioral change.
It's just parts therapy and the meta pattern. I've done this same process. I use the emotional trance method on the problem to bring the feelings and details to the present. Once the triggering event is lit up in the neurology we do a hard stop and juxtaposition how they want to feel and be again using the emotional trance method again. We repeat and test to see if the problem is still there. If it is we repeat the juxtaposed reality again
Yep. And looking for contradicting experience isn't needed. By the way, involving parts isn't necessary either. I do sometimes when I can't seem to find the "core aspect" of the problem in a simpler way.
Bruce’s work is to reveal the fundamental mechanism of change of the emotional brain so that psychotherapy can be effective quickly and permanently. Instead of partial incremental changes by counteracting the symptoms which can be reversed and thus is not permanent. Transformational change means problems is removed and one is no longer triggered by what triggered one before.
Once emotional learning consolidates it cannot be erased unless one knows how to erase emotional learning following the steps of memory reconsolidation: 1, activate the memory, 2. Present the emotional brain with alternative emotionally powerful information. In EMDR THE BILATERAL stimulation forces the emotional brain to search for contradictory information and ,if found, it will change the memory. In COHERENCE THERAPY the therapist brings the life beliefs to the surface and holds them there until the emotional memory is changed. In Listening prayer one can turn to God for alternative truth revelations that will powerfully change the memory. I use that in my Christian psychotherapy.
Can you please share some examples of this very interesting approach (Turning to the Creator for alternative TRUTH, thank you so much, it some how resonates.
Thank you for this profound insight into the workings of the human brain and for your work on using it to healing the mind. This has been life changing for me. That recording error that skipped the explanation of schema structure was so unfortunate.. I will now dive into your book and hope to find it there.
Defining markers of lasting transformational change: 1, symptoms disappear- thoughts, emotions, behaviours and somatic events and without any further intervention remain absent. The key that unlocks the door to successful psychotherapy.
Late one night in 2005 Memory Reconsolidation came into Bruce Esker’s life and changed everything. It is a core process of transformational change that is shared by all highly effective therapies. We know the brain’s own conditions for producing transformational change.
Huberman is very sincere but he talks too much trying to show all his learnings. Dr Ecker’s talking time would be less than Huberman’s and the audience would be deprived of Dr Ecker’s great knowledge.
Dear Bruce. Thanks for your work! Please tell me, in your example of a woman who, after childhood harassment, had a symptom of resentment to the whole world based on the scheme that this only happened to her. Why didn't you start working through all that childhood traumatic experience from childhood, but limited yourself to only refuting one scheme? Indeed, on the basis of those childhood events, many other schemes could have been formed that were not realized by her. And many methods, when such traumatic cases are found, will work through them completely from beginning to end in order to explore all emotions and negative beliefs. In Coherence Therapy, you don't do that? Are you not exploring the entire traumatic experience you found?
Alex - Yes, in Coherence Therapy we can find and work to unlearn and nullify any number of a client’s schemas formed in childhood trauma. However, the point of departure for the work in Coherence Therapy is always an unwanted behavior, state of mind, or somatic disturbance identified by the client. We start there and find the underlying emotional learning, or schema, generating it, then subject that schema to profound learning via memory reconsolidation. A person who suffered severely in numerous ways in childhood (complex trauma) describes numerous such problem patterns, so we find numerous underlying schemas. For “Norina,” the starting point was her chronic anger/resentment reaction. After its underlying schema was found and nullified, and the anger/resentment reaction ceased happening, we did continue to work on other problem patterns that she identified and wanted to address, but they were not related to the childhood sexual trauma. Remember, she told me that long ago she had much therapy for the molest trauma. The schema we found seems to have been the last of it. If I had some sense of another aspect of that trauma's ongoing effects, I was free to invite her to consider working on that, but I didn't. - Bruce
@@bruceecker2761 Dear Bruce, thank you very much for your reply. Now I understand that in Coherence Therapy you go from the current symptom and find the underlying schemas. But you are probably familiar with the EMDR method. In it, if you come across some traumatic event in the course of work, then they work out this event completely, removing all aspects. Why doesn't Coherence Therapy do the same? After all, the found emotional scheme according to the symptom, which was formed in some tragic situation, may not be the only one created as a result of this trauma. Why not work out the traumatic situation found in its entirety in order to remove all emotional schemes with a reserve for the future, so that at some point, due to a trigger, they do not turn on at an unnecessary moment for a person?
dr. tori olds has a great answer to this in her video titled "transformation." i recommend it. she discusses bringing in self-compassion, and realization of the fact that we are now adults and more capable than we were as children, which can be a great contradiction. i would check that video out, though! 🤍
I would argue that therapy can provide the context to create those contradictions, e.g. via imagery or behavioral experiments, but also via a myriad other methods
What was the point of uploading this video? With all the cuts, the question of the title: when is insecure attachment the real issue in theraly' was NOT answered! B Ecker is brilliant but sadly, the edits make this video a waste of time.
