(20 reviews) Author: Bruce Ecker ISBN : 9780415897167 New from $113.42 Format: PDFPsychotherapy that regularly yields liberating, lasting change was, in the last century, a futuristic vision, but it has now become reality, thanks to a convergence of remarkable advances in clinical knowledge and brain science. 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, unconscious, 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. Numerous case examples show the versatile use of this process in AEDP, Coherence Therapy, EFT, EMDR and IPNB.
- Hardcover: 264 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 24, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415897165
- ISBN-13: 978-0415897167
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I've purchased 100s of books from Amazon.com over the years and while I frequently read the customer reviews prior to a purchase decision, I've never before had the inclination or urge to write a review myself. This is my first.
As a little background and context, in my 2nd stage in life, I made a career change and am currently a registered Marriage and Family Therapist Intern nearing completion of my experiential hours required to take the licensing exams. A Masters Degree and 3000+ hours of experience does not qualify me as an expert in psychotherapy though it does give me a lot of face time with people suffering from mild to severe psychological issues. The training and supervision process has also shown me that almost all therapists struggle with how best to help our clients and what specific tools, theoretical modalities or other techniques to use to ease this suffering. Along the way, therapists, including myself, adopt theories that fit with our own philosophical beliefs and life experiences. Personally, I've found myself relating best to the 3rd Wave Cognitive/Behavioral Therapies (ACT, DBT, etc.) though Interpersonal Neurobiology (INPB) and attachment theory have heavily informed the therapeutic path I currently follow. Brief Therapies haven't been my focus, but I've occasionally come across things that feel relevant and helpful.
A few years back, I came across Ecker and Hulley's book, Depth Oriented Brief Psychotherapy, and it fascinated and moved me to consider the most logical notion that psychological "symptoms" are functional. Other paths caught my attention, but I've occasionally come back to this book and was very interested when I saw that Ecker, Hulley, (and Ticic) had a new book coming out. I immediately pre-ordered it.
Putting the final touches on over a quarter century of clinical practice backed up by rigorous thinking, Bruce Ecker, Robin Ticic and Laurel Hulley have written a break thru book that sets itself apart from other psychology books in 2 significant ways,
1. A new way of defining recovery,
2. An explanation of why other systems of therapy occasionally work.
Methodology:
Perhaps most important, this book is based on the analysis of actual clinical cases. No hypothetical theories explaining how our behaviors are the result of imaginary forces like Id, Ego, Superego, Parent, Adult, Child etc. This book presents real Individuals recovering from a wide variety of psychological sufferings.
Recovery:
'Recovery' is defined with 2 very different meanings.
First, it's permanent, not the typical works for a while, then we return back to our original problems as is true of counteractive change philosophies as happen so frequently in both clinical practice and certainly in our prison systems.
Second, it's totally predictable!
If you follow the 7 Simple steps presented, the sequence of experiences the brain requires to heal, you will create transformational change in every case, no hits or misses.
Other approaches:
This book explains how & when other systems work. EMDR, AEDP, EFT, IPNB are all given significant space with clear cases and comparisons. Chapter 5 puts the currently over-popular Attachment theory into a more reasonable perspective.
Style:
This most readable book is supplemented by downloadable sections like the Glossary, an excellent e-experience. It's so nice to download & print out the Glossary of Terms and have it next to you while reading the book...
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