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The paper "Psychotherapy’s Mysterious Efficacy Ceiling: Is Memory Reconsolidation the Breakthrough?" by Bruce Ecker explores the persistent issue of psychotherapy's efficacy being no more effective than placebo treatments. Despite various therapeutic modalities and levels of therapist expertise, clinical outcomes remain similar, suggesting an underlying limitation. Ecker proposes that this efficacy ceiling results from therapies not addressing the subcortical emotional learnings that drive symptoms. He introduces Coherence Therapy, which targets and transforms these deep-rooted constructs through memory reconsolidation, offering a potential pathway to surpass the current limitations of psychotherapy efficacy.

  • Understand the concept of the "Dodo bird verdict" in psychotherapy efficacy research.

  • Identify the main limitations of current psychotherapies as outlined by Bruce Ecker.

  • Describe the principles and methodology of Coherence Therapy.

  • Explain the role of subcortical emotional learnings in symptom production.

  • Discuss the process of memory reconsolidation and its application in psychotherapy.

  • Analyze the two-step process involved in transforming deep-rooted constructs using Coherence Therapy.

Course curriculum

    1. Psychotherapy’s Mysterious Efficacy Ceiling: Is Memory Resonsolidation the Breakthrough? by Bruce Ecker

    2. Efficacy Ceiling Quiz

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