How the Science of Memory Reconsolidation Advances the Effectiveness and Unification of Psychotherapy.
Memory reconsolidation research by neuroscientists has demonstrated the erasure of emotional learnings. This article reviews these historic findings and how they translate directly into therapeutic application to provide the clinical field with an empirically confirmed process of transformational ch...
| Published in: | Clinical Social Work Journal Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 287 - 301 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2020
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