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