Bruce Ecker Quotes

“A fundamental feature of the symptom coherence model of symptom production is the recognition that the suffering due to a functional symptom is actually the lesser of two evils - the other, greater evil being the suffering that is unconsciously expected from not having the symptom.”
― bruce ecker, Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation

“We have seen that when an emotional learning or schema is the
underlying cause of a therapy client’s presenting symptom, the
schema can be retrieved into direct, explicit experience and then
profoundly unlearned and dissolved by the same sequence of
experiences that neuroscientists identified in reconsolidation
research”
― bruce ecker, Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation

“The central principle in Coherence Therapy is that far more symptoms are produced by emotional learnings than is generally recognized, and learning-driven symptoms exist entirely because they are adaptively and compelling necessary to have, according to at least one of a person's emotional implicit learnings for how to avoid suffering and have safety, well being or justice.”
― Bruce Ecker