Main description:

This book is the only psychotherapy text that:

* maps out a core process of profound unlearning, confirmed in neuroscience research, that is shared across all types of psychotherapy that produce transformational change, for a remarkable unification of the panoply of therapy systems

* guides each therapist's use of her or his preferred techniques for more consistently achieving transformational change-the complete, permanent elimination of symptoms and their underlying emotional schemas and mental models

* provides two dozen detailed case examples showing that the core process is effective for a vast range of the severe, longstanding problems and symptoms presented by therapy seekers, including complex trauma, depression, panic attacks, shame, insecure attachment, compulsive behaviors, and many others

Contents:

Preface to the Classic Edition. Part I: Emotional Coherence: A Unified Framework of Behavioral, Emotional, and Synaptic Change 1. Maximizing Effectiveness and Satisfaction in Clinical Practice 2. Memory Reconsolidation: How the Brain Unlearns 3. The Focused, Deep Psychotherapy of Emotional Unlearning 4. Moments of Fundamental Change: Map and Methods 5. Emotional Coherence and the Great Attachment Debate 6. A Framework for Psychotherapy Integration Part II: Coherence-Focused Therapy in Practice 7. Sibson, A Father's Tormenting Guilt: Deep Resolution in Seven Coherence-Focused Sessions 8. Martignetti, Up On Top From Down Below: Cessation of Compulsive Drinking Using Coherence Therapy 9. Geoghegan, Bypassing Bypass Surgery: Using Emotional Coherence to Dispel Compulsive Eating 10. Connor, Hearing Hostile Voices: Ending Psychotic Symptoms at Their Coherent Roots. Glossary. References. The Authors.