Working with traumatic memory
Do you have a troublesome or traumatic memory? Or Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome?
A common belief is that once you have one of these memories then you are stuck with it for life, and little can be done about it.
Recent research confirms that this is not so, and that it is possible to neutralise traumatic memories in therapy. One way to do that is to interfere with the way in which the brain accesses these memories. This is the basis for the EMDR technique which disrupts access to traumatic memories by asking subjects to keep their eyes on a moving finger while trying to recall the trauma at the same time.
