In the last blog post we showed how the Movie Theater Technique is an example of therapeutic reconsolidation by applying the three criteria of verification from the Therapeutic Reconsolidation Process (TRP) proposed by Ecker, et. al. (2012). This time, we’ll use the same video to track the second phase of TRP, the transformation process.

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In the video below you can watch Steve Andreas working with Laurie, a woman who has suffered from a bee phobia for twenty years after being swarmed and stung repeatedly as a child. In less than ten minutes, following a simple NLP process, the woman goes from being completely reactive to Steve’s hint at a bee by making a gesture and saying, “Imagine ...

You may have heard about memory reconsolidation theory and how important it can be in the treatment of trauma. True, indeed. But memory reconsolidation can also be helpful in many other ways, clinically.

Like changing a limiting belief. Oftentimes, negative affect is like the glue that holds a limiting belief in place. And by using reconsolidation-informed ...

Memory reconsolidation theory may be the most important breakthrough for psychotherapy since Freud. What it makes clear is that people no longer need to be prisoners of their past nor their trauma. Prior to our understanding of memory through reconsolidation, it was thought that emotional learnings and memories could never be changed and individuals ...