Memory Reconsolidation
The science guiding the art of transformational change

Reshaping the Psychotherapy Field

Extensive research in neuroscience laboratories around the world since 2000 has revealed the brain’s built-in process of memory reconsolidation, the only known natural, internal mechanism that allows longstanding behavioral and emotional patterns to be fundamentally unlearned and “erased” at the level of their neural encoding.

The Coherence Psychology Institute has pioneered the psychotherapeutic use of this research breakthrough, extracting from hundreds of neuroscience journal articles the core process that is directly replicable in therapy sessions to produce transformational change—the complete and lasting cessation of major symptoms and their associated, distress-laden emotional themes.

It is largely due to the steady outflow of writings, presentations, and clinical trainings from CPI for two decades that the proponents of nearly every system of psychotherapy now show how their methodology fulfills the memory reconsolidation process. This precious knowledge of a universal, core process of profound change powerfully advances not only the effectiveness of individual therapists, but also the unification of the severely fragmented and parochial psychotherapy field.
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“Here you will find experts who have spent decades painstakingly going over the extensive body of memory reconsolidation research, creatively experimenting with its principles clinically, and developing a coherent framework for the unification of psychotherapy... The memory reconsolidation framework has the rarest of advantages for the unification of psychotherapy, in that it guides the clinician in a rigorous manner, while simultaneously respecting the multitude of ways in which deep change can be facilitated.”

Alexandre Vaz, PhD
Director of Training, Sentio Counseling Center, and Series Editor, The Essentials of Deliberate Practice (American Psychological Association Press)

“No discussion of therapeutic memory reconsolidation would be complete without elaborating upon the groundbreaking work of Bruce Ecker, the person most responsible for bringing the neuroscientific concept of memory reconsolidation into the clinical realm.”

Martha Stark, MD
Harvard Medical School Faculty, award-winning author with nine books on the integration of theory and practice, including Modes of Therapeutic Action

“Unlocking the Emotional Brain is destined to be a landmark publication… I'm sensing an emerging consensus in the field of psychotherapy… I think memory reconsolidation and this book could be the hub around which the various approaches unite… It is essential reading for therapists of all stripes…”

David Van Nuys, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Sonoma State University

“Unlocking the Emotional Brain is one of the most important psychotherapy books of our generation. It brings the recent groundbreaking brain research on memory reconsolidation to the mental health field... This is the first psychotherapy book to delineate the sequence of experiences the brain requires to heal. This is big, important information that is applicable across many treatment approaches. No matter how good a therapist you already are, reading this book will make you better.”

Ricky Greenwald, PsyD
founder/director, Trauma Institute and Child Trauma Institute, author of EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment

“Truly a revolutionary book.”

Jaak Panksepp, PhD
founder of the field of affective neuroscience and author of Affective Neuroscience