No, it isn't, as Bruce Ecker explains to Psychotherapy Networker editor Rich Simon in this lively interview, and he paints a vivid picture of how therapists can determine accurately whether attachment issues underlie a given client's problem patterns. To see just a few excerpts from the full interview, click here. For the full interview, including two Coherence Therapy case examples, click here.

The Mental Help Net website's second interview of Bruce Ecker focuses on neuroscientists' breakthrough research on reconsolidation, with big implications for psychotherapy. For podcast and transcript, click here. For the previous interview, which looks closely at how profound change of emotional and behavioral responses takes place, click here.

After a breakthrough demonstration of reconsolidation was reported by neuroscientists in the research journal Nature, a related press release from the Coherence Psychology Institute began, "A process identified by psychotherapists in their therapy sessions, and subsequently discovered independently by neuroscientists in lab studies with animals, has now been used by neuroscientists to erase a fear reaction in human subjects. ..." To read more, click here.

The Jan-Feb 2010 issue of Psychotherapy Networker featured this article by Bruce Ecker on how therapists can utilize reconsolidation, the brain’s built-in process for actually deleting an unwanted emotional response learned earlier in life. This process allows a new learning to rewrite and erase the original one. Read about how the steps of the process were first identified clinically in the development of Coherence Therapy in the early 1990s, and subsequently were discovered independently by neuroscientists using very different methods. A case example illustrates the art that implements the science.  Download reprint»