ABSTRACT
An action-based, solution-focused, future-oriented psychodynamic model will be presented that conceives of the mind as holding infinite potential and of memory as dynamic and continuously updating itself on the basis of new experience (whether real or simply envisioned). A constructivist model at heart, the author’s freshly minted Model 5 is an innovative and exciting approach to healing that is informed by the groundbreaking neuroscientific discovery that when traumatic memories are reactivated in an embodied fashion, the network of synapses encoding those memories will become deconsolidated for a time-limited period. This unlocking – fueled by repeated and dramatic juxtaposition of old bad learned expectations with new good envisioned possibilities – will create the opportunity for both rewiring the brain and reprogramming the mind by way of therapeutic memory reconsolidation.
