6 Quotes by Bruce Ecker

Emotional memory converts the past into an expectation of the future, without our awareness, and that is both a blessing and a curse.

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.

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.

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.

The central principle in Coherence Therapy is that far more symptoms are produced by emotional learnings than is generally recognized, and learning-driven symptoms exist entirely because they are adaptively and compelling necessary to have, according to at least one of a person's emotional implicit learnings for how to avoid suffering and have safety, well being or justice.

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