/lit/ - Literature

Probably the most important book in 21st century psychotherapy, in my opinion. Using neuroscience research, it explains how to apply the memory reconsolidation process in a clinical setting to yield actual transformational change as opposed to incremental slow change of traditional therapies. Turns out the root cause of most mental problems is implicit emotional learning in memory, which is possible to erase or update in such a manner that it removes long-standing negative symptoms pretty much immediately.

Not a self-help book, but it helped me out understand my emotional problems and how to deal with them much more effectively than any other psychotherapeutic model I've read about.

Not a self-help book and not specifically about anxiety but it's an incredible relatively new approach to psychotherapy.
Usually therapy requires years of effort in counteracting symptoms to be effective but through memory reconsolidation clients can go through transformational change in a brief period of time (sometimes a single session).
Seems unrealistic but because it directly changes the root cause of most mental issues (implicit emotional learning), it can be effective in a very short period of time.

Here's a short talk and a primer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V_rI2N6Fco
http://www.coherencetherapy.org/files/Ecker-etal-NPT2013April-Primer.pdf

Anyone read this?
Anyone tried this?

I know of one anon that mentioned it a few times and we had a discussion, but the thread got deleted.

Imo, it seems kinda unreal. The most retarded thing for the brain is to get stuck on something, I mean each part of our body can regenerate itself to some extent, but the brain being this dumb to get stuck on something like anxiety or depression or whatever just makes the brain look like a brainlet. On the other hand, these are problems that are really prevailing in our culture and a book offering such a simple solution like this seems kinda hard to believe.

pic related changed my life.

Most mental issues are learned. Anxiety and depression are the result of a faulty, distorted view of the world or just plain old information that isn't adaptive anymore (schemas).
The problem is that: (a) you don't know what particular schema you need to unlearn, (b) you don't know how to unlearn it.
Your mind is mostly unconscious but most of your behavior is guided by this unconscious that was shaped by experience and learning.
The way towards actual transformation change is through a process called memory reconsolidation.
Through self-reflection you find these implicit emotional learnings underlying your behavior, you verbalize them so they can be integrated into conscious awareness and then you use the process of memory reconsolidation to change or erase that learning.
This leads to change that requires no counteracting or effort to upkeep, meaning, actual real change, not the behaviorism meme.

I managed to try out the techniques on myself in a self-help manner without a therapist (which isn't recommended) and I can verify that it's actually effective.
My depression and low self-esteem are seemingly gone and my anxiety has reduced significantly and weirdly, somehow different qualitatively.
I used to berate myself all day, just wake up and start self-loathing immediately, feel completely ashamed of myself.
Now, despite absolutely nothing changing in my life, I feel completely normal for the first time in ages.

Anyway, here's a nice primer on it.
http://www.coherencetherapy.org/files/Ecker-etal-NPT2013April-Primer.pdf