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1 " Memory research that supports a non-pathologizing, coherence-based model of symptom production in the wide range of cases where symptoms are generated by emotional memory. This is the central perspective of the Emotional Coherence Framework. "
― , Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation
2 " We have seen that when an emotional learning or schema is theunderlying cause of a therapy client’s presenting symptom, theschema can be retrieved into direct, explicit experience and thenprofoundly unlearned and dissolved by the same sequence ofexperiences that neuroscientists identified in reconsolidationresearch "
3 " A fundamental feature of the symptom coherence model of symptom production is the recognition that the suffering due to a functional symptom is actually the lesser of two evils - the other, greater evil being the suffering that is unconsciously expected from not having the symptom. "
4 " Emotional memory converts the past into an expectation of the future, without our awareness, and that is both a blessing and a curse. "
5 " Memory research has established that learnings accompanied by strong emotion form neural circuits in subcortical implicit memory that are exceptionally durable, normally lasting a lifetime. "
6 " Table 3.1 Steps of clinical process for using new learning to nullify or update an existing emotional learning "