Unlocking the Emotional Brain - Page 9


I've seen juxtaposition dispel anxiety, panic, depression, attachment problems, compulsive behaviors, low self-esteem, and many other symptoms and problems. But lest I seem a juxtaposition fanatic, I should say I'm aware that all sorts of therapeutic methods that look nothing like the juxtaposition process sometime produce this same kind of profound change during which a potent emotional theme truly disappears. I suspect that's because all sorts of processes can bring about a juxtaposition experience serendipitously, often without client or therapist even recognizing it as such.

However, after 15 years of teaching the retrieval and transformation methods of Coherence Therapy, I feel confident in saying that understanding juxtaposition makes a therapist far more consistent in fostering profound change. Most therapists produce life-changing, transformational shifts from time to time. I believe it's possible for that kind of effectiveness to become a regular occurrence in every therapist's day-to-day practice through cooperating closely with the built-in juxtaposition process of deep change that's part of our brains' standard operating procedures.

Bruce Ecker, M.A., L.M.F.T., is codirector of the Coherence Psychology Institute and coauthor of Depth Oriented Brief Therapy: How To Be Brief When You Were Trained To Be Deep, and Vice Versa. Contact: bruce.ecker@coherenceinstitute.org.

Letters to the Editor about this department can be e-mailed to letters@psychnetworker.org.

The following Networker U Courses related to this subject are available at www.psychotherapynetworker.org:

Audio Home Study
A-222 The Therapeutic Relationship and the Brain
CE Credits: 6
Instructor: Daniel Siegel

Online Courses
OL-102 Getting Comfortable with the Brain
CE Credits: 4
Authors Daniel Siegel, Mary Wylie, Brent Atkinson, Babette Rothschild

OL-116 Treating Depression: It Takes More than a Pill
CE Credits: 2
Authors Michael Yapko, Margaret Wehrenberg, Peggy Papp, Bruce Ecker

OL-117 Treating The Anxious Client
CE Credits: 2
Authors Reid Wilson, Margaret Wehrenberg, Miriam Greenspan, Bruce Ecker

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