Unlocking the Emotional Brain

Bruce Ecker, MA, LMFT, is Co-Director of the Coherence Psychology Institute, co-originator of Coherence Therapy, and co-author of the Coherence Therapy Practice Manual and Training Guide, Depth Oriented Brief Therapy: How to Be Brief When You Were Trained to Be Deep and Vice Versa, and The Listening Book. Robin Ticic, BA, HP Psychotherapy (Germany), is Director of Development and Training for the Coherence Psychology Institute, co-author of The Listening Book, author of the parenting guide How to Connect with Your Child, and a certified trainer of Coherence Therapy. Laurel Hulley, MA, is co-originator of Coherence Therapy, Director of Education for the Coherence Psychology Institute, co-founder of the Julia Morgan School for Girls, and co-author of the Coherence Therapy Practice Manual and Training Guide and Depth Oriented Brief Therapy: How to Be Brief When You Were Trained To Be Deep and Vice Versa.

Foreword by Alexandre Vaz Part One: The Emotional Coherence Framework: Equipping Psychotherapists for Unprecedented Effectiveness 1. Maximum Psychotherapeutic Effectiveness: The Reality of Transformational Change 2. How the Brain Unlearns: Memory Reconsolidation Explained 3. The Transformational Psychotherapy of Emotional Unlearning 4. The Moments of Fundamental Change in Slow Motion: Three Case Examples of Coherence Therapy 5. Is It Always About Attachment? Emotional Coherence and The Great Attachment Debate 6. A Framework for the Unification of Psychotherapy: Introduction to Part 2 Part Two: Hidden in Plain Sight: One Core Process in Therapies of Transformational Change 7. Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) 8. Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) 9. Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) 10. Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) 11. Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) 12. Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) 13. Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Ayahuasca 14. Somatic Experiencing (SE) Part Three: The Versatility of Coherence-Focused Psychotherapy 15. A Father's Tormenting Guilt: Deep Resolution in Seven Coherence-Focused Sessions 16. Up On Top From Down Below: Ending Compulsive Drinking Using Coherence Therapy 17. Bypassing Bypass Surgery: Using Emotional Coherence to End Compulsive Eating 18. Hearing Hostile Voices: Ending Psychotic Symptoms at Their Coherent Roots 19. Releasing Blocked Self-Expression from the Wounds of Systemic Racism: Coherence Therapy for a Deep Recalibration of Vulnerability 20. Don't Be That Way: Liberation from Lifelong Homophobic Oppression via Coherence-Guided Narratology 21. Life in the Stranglehold of Rules: Using Meditative Experience for Ending Insecure Attachment within Coherence Therapy 22. Young Teen Medicated and Misdiagnosed ADHD: Ending Hyperactive Behavior by Finding its Underlying Coherence 23. Plunging Moods and Erratic Behaviors "For No Reason": A Six-Year-Old Boy's Secret Fear Dissolves in Coherence Therapy 24. It's My Fault: Group Coherence Therapy fo Nine-Year-Old Children with Divorcing Parents