Listed here are symptoms that fully ceased to occur and did not reoccur, with no preventative practices or efforts, as a prompt result of the memory reconsolidation process of profound unlearning (steps 1, 2, and 3 of the Therapeutic Reconsolidation Process). That process is described in each of the writings listed at the bottom of this page.
Each symptom is tagged with either 1 or 2 to indicate:
1 The unlearning process of MR was knowingly facilitated in Coherence Therapy; for an index of published cases.
2 The unlearning process of MR was unknowingly facilitated in other systems of therapy, as documented in published accounts.
- Aggressive behavior1
- Agoraphobia1
- Alcohol abuse1
- Affect avoidance1 2
- Anger and rage1
- Anxiety1 2
- Attention deficit problems1
- Codependency1
- Complex trauma symptomology1 2
- Compulsive behaviors of many kinds1
- Couples' problems of conflict / communication / closeness1
- Delusions1
- Depression1 2
- Disruptive behavior diagnosed ADHD1
- Erratic moods and behavior of a child1
- Family and child problems1
- Fidgeting1
- Food/eating/weight problems1
- Grief and bereavement problems1 2
- Guilt, self-blame1 2
- Hallucinations1
- Indecision1
- Inner critic, low self-worth, self-devaluing, self-doubting, self-hatred, unworthiness1 2
- Insecure attachment-based behaviors and distress1
- Isolation1 2
- Obsessive attachment1
- Panic attacks1 2
- Perfectionism1
- Phobia: fear of flying1
- Procrastination / Inaction1
- Psychogenic / psychosomatic pain1
- PTSD symptoms1
- Self-harming impulses, suicidality1
- Sexual aversion1
- Sexual molestation PTSD1
- Shame1 2
- Sleeplessness1
- Social anxiety1 2
- Stage fright1
- Terror, formless1
- Terror of others' anger2
- Ulcerative colitis2
- Underachieving1
- Voice / speaking / singing problems1
Ecker, B., Ticic, R., & Hulley, L. (2024). Unlocking the emotional brain: Memory reconsolidation and the psychotherapy of transformational change (2nd Edition). New York, NY and Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Ecker, B., & Vaz, A. (2022). Memory reconsolidation and the crisis of mechanism in psychotherapy. New Ideas in Psychology, 66, 100945, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2022.100945
Ecker, B. (2021, November 19). Reconsolidation behavioral updating of human emotional memory: A comprehensive review and unified analysis of successes, replication failures, and clinical translation. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/atz3m
Ecker, B., & Bridges, S. K. (2020). How the science of memory reconsolidation advances the effectiveness and unification of psychotherapy. Clinical Social Work Journal, 48(3), 287-300. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-020-00754-z
Ecker, B. (2018). Clinical translation of memory reconsolidation research: Therapeutic methodology for transformational change by erasing implicit emotional learnings driving symptom production. International Journal of Neuropsychotherapy, 6(1), 1-92. https://doi.org/10.12744/ijnpt.2018.0001-0092