I am an accredited Analytical Psychologist trained in the philosophy and psychology of C.G. Jung at the Jung Institute Zürich, Switzerland and am based in Johannesburg, South Africa. This is underpinned by academic degrees in psychology, which include an Honours degree in Applied Psychology and a Masters degree in Research psychology, which qualify me in the areas of human development, personality, abnormal psychology, social psychology, neuropsychology, sociology, ethics, and biological and perceptual systems.
RAPID EMOTION REGULATION: THE E.R.A.S.E.D MEMORY RECONSOLIDATION PROCESS | A LIFE OF THRIVING AND FLOURISHING – NOW
Six steps that will permanently erase old, unwanted patterns of past learning and suffering, replacing and updating them with new knowledge
Perhaps you have only a few areas of difficulty or a traumatic experience and you want to remove your distress rapidly and permanently within two to eight sessions, following a short-term path that erases past learnings, updating and replacing them with new knowledge, which enables you to achieve a life of personal meaning and joy. You seek more than mere survival; you seek to thrive and to flourish. The ERASED Memory Reconsolidation is a process designed for these situations.
What you will gain from the ERASED Memory Reconsolidation Process
This form of work is intended to remove one or a few specific areas of difficulty and suffering.
- You will rapidly remove and cut short the suffering and distress that has been ongoing, often for several decades.
- You will permanently erase, replace and update old learning patterns, with new knowledge. The ERASED Memory Reconsolidation Process works and has been shown to successfully transform unmovable, enduring issues and obstacles permanently and speedily. These transformations include,
- the capacity to successfully achieve intentions, purposes, goals, or aims.
- permanent erasure of past aversive emotions and a narrow band of responses to specific trigger events, by replacing and updating these with new knowledge.
- Memory reconsolidation addresses and transforms aspects such as one or more of the following,
- the ability to relate to colleagues or superiors at work.
- the ability to attain work goals.
- being able to enjoy a great, fulfilling relationship.
- various aversive emotions and unwanted issues such as anger, anxiety, depression, sadness, panic attacks, perfectionism, procrastination, and trauma.
- As a result, you will be able to live a life of meaning and general happiness, and to experience a feeling of well-being which is associated with well-thinking.
- You will experience more than mere survival. You will live a life of thriving and flourishing.
To register or for more information contact Leslie Zimmermann by emailing leslie.zimmermann@gmail.com
Why we seek psychoanalysis
Some of us experience only one or a few areas of difficulty or a past trauma. But exasperatingly, the issue often finds its way into several areas of our lives resulting in repeated powerlessness, obstacles to living life fully, a narrow range of unwanted responses, negative emotions and ongoing distress and despair in the presence of certain trigger events. The problem area persists stubbornly, no matter how we try to change it. The ERASED Memory Reconsolidation Process is designed to successfully erase these difficulties and the distressing emotions and responses that have been associated to these triggers, replacing and updating these old patterns of learning with new knowledge.
The goals of the ERASED Memory Reconsolidation Process
- Remove distress rapidly. The first goal of the ERASED process is to rapidly remove and cut short the suffering and distress that has been ongoing, often for several decades. The underlying motif is, “why suffer for a few more years while changing, when the suffering can end within one or two sessions.”
- Erase, replace and update old learning patterns with new knowledge. To this end, the second goal is inner and outer development by replacing old learnings that, although vital for safety, security and affection at sometime in our lives, are now not necessary and are unwanted. The aim is thus, to be able to finally “bring your ability into accord, into harmony, with your objectives.” It is a developmental process that endows you with the capacity to successfully achieve your intentions, purposes, goals, and your aims, such as your ability to relate to colleagues or superiors at work, or to attain your work goals, or it might be to enjoy a great relationship, the specific issue previously being unattainable and thus, leading to suffering, failures, powerlessness, obstacles, and a host of negative views about yourself. The ERASED process achieves this by permanently erasing your unwanted learnings and updating and replacing them with lasting new knowledge.
- Well-being is accompanied by well-thinking. The third goal is to be able to live a life of meaning and general happiness, and to experience a feeling of well-being which is associated with well-thinking. This form of work is intended to remove specific areas of difficulty and suffering, which act as obstacles to the achievement of goals, due to old patterns of learning that stubbornly persist. These patterns of learning are a normal part of human functioning.
What is memory reconsolidation?
Memory reconsolidation is a neuroplastic function of the brain, which is the capacity to permanently change the wirings in the brain and thus, bring about psychological and physiological transformation in the functioning of body, brain and mind. It is an evolutionary development found in both animals and humans, belonging to no one person and is theory-free. The only part of it that can be laid claim to, as is the case with any material or biological phenomenon or system, is the recognition of an application through interpretation and understanding by a professional in the specific area of knowledge. This can lead to the creation of an operational system or process that can be available for use in the world. In line with this, the ERASED process adheres strictly to the neuroplastic governing principles of the brain that functions as a very specific kind of neuroplasticity and can be used in a psychoanalytical context. This neuroplastic function is the capacity to permanently and immediately transform old schemas and models. Used in a psychoanalytical context, transformation can take place in a single session.
The ERASED Memory Reconsolidation Process and Its Development
I developed the ERASED process as a result of knowledge and experience underpinned by my specific areas of education, my capacity to understand and interpret the human symbolic functions of thinking, speech and behavior, and the capacity to perceive unexpected relationships and connections in the areas I investigate. But, as with any new development, what is “new” stands on the shoulders of those who have gone before, each person, each researcher contributing value when a part is separated out and drawn out of the whole, from within the structure and pattern of a branch of knowledge. Each person then adds to the sum of value. The ERASED Memory Reconsolidation Process is such a segment of the current development of processes that translate the neuroscience of the brain’s function of memory reconsolidation, transporting it into the world of psychoanalytical practice. The ERASED Process has been carefully and professionally developed by following the precepts underpinning my accreditation and experience as an analytical psychologist, sound neuroscientific and psychological peer-reviewed journal articles, published research and studies on memory reconsolidation, and a growing body of literature, advancing and detailing psychoanalytical processes of memory reconsolidation.
I have been working with clients using the ERASED Memory Reconsolidation Process since 2014. Results over this period have shown that it works successfully. It works because it is carefully based on and follows the brain’s governing principles of memory reconsolidation. The outcome of transformational change as a result of the ERASED Process is an experience of thriving and flourishing, and the entire process from beginning to end is pleasant, making it easy to participate in.
What is the ERASED reconsolidation approach?
This form of work is intended to remove specific areas of difficulty and suffering, rather than being an ongoing journey. The areas of difficulty are not simple or superficial. They are constellations of patterns and models, which are a natural way in which humans learn and develop. Each learned model includes information about how to think, how to speak, how to behave, what attitudes and beliefs to have, how to respond, together with specific emotions, which hold the model together as an integrated whole schema. These patterns of learning are a normal part of human functioning. From the perspective of the ERASED process, these ways of functioning are not viewed as pathological or dysfunctional. They were originally put together by us, albeit unconsciously, as the logical way to ensure safety, security, and affection when the situations we were in were dangerous, when we were met by non-acceptance, and when love was contingent on being the kind of person our care-givers viewed was acceptable. But, as anyone can testify, these old patterns are virtually impossible to change. The reason for this is that what we learn while growing up is meant to endure for life. For example, as a very young child, you learn to first put on socks and then your shoes. This becomes an enduring learning so that you don’t ever need to figure this out again when you get dressed. This approach belongs to all that we have learned over the years where by far; the vast majority of our learnings are useful and good.
Many published scientific and psychotherapeutic studies have confirmed that memory reconsolidation has been successful for issues such as, attachment issues, various aversive emotions such as anger, anxiety, panic attacks, perfectionism, procrastination, trauma, depression, and many more issues (Bruce Ecker, 2012: 107). The ERASED process has similarly experienced success and is suitable for working with a wide variety of areas including work and relational issues, emotional issues, panic attack, and views of self such as feeling inferior, stupid, helpless, unlovable, having low self-worth, and so on.
As such, the ERASED Process will consciously and effectively enable you to not only attend to aversive emotions and thoughts, to not only erase old learnings and replace them with new knowledge, to not only survive but also, to actively thrive. This is the aim of memory reconsolidation. It is permanent and quick transformation of what is no longer useful. This evolutionary function has now, in contemporary times, become available as a conscious, deliberate function.
What The Erased Process Is Not
Memory reconsolidation is not a “miracle process” that will transform you into another person overnight. It is a transformational process that erases old, unwanted learnings linked to specific trigger situations and replaces and updates these old learnings with new knowledge. These old learnings were adaptive and logical at the time the learning took place. The original trigger situations evoked the learning that certain painful emotions such as distress, anxiety, fear, anger, or sadness will always be associated with these specific trigger situations. These emotions in turn required of us that we repetitively respond in certain specific ways – the only ways possible at the time – in order to avoid suffering from these painful feelings. It also resulted in us adopting specific, aversive views about ourselves with respect to these trigger situations such as viewing ourselves as inferior, wrong, or bad. In this way, a model or schema developed that comprised the specific trigger situation, it’s associated painful emotions, and a narrow band of repeating responses. It is the specific schemas that transform permanently “overnight.”
Client Comments
“What more nobler a cause is there than helping towards the journey to wholeness for modern man.“
Response from a client who functions in both scientific and holistic medical fields
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In the past I considered anything that was not serious or economical as frivolous, which stopped me from engaging in many areas I enjoyed. I also suffered from an autoimmune disease that prevented me from functioning properly when it flared up. At such times I was only able to lie down and sleep or engage with so-called irrelevant activities and felt that no one was in my corner. I criticized myself mercilessly for not being able to function as I usually did when I felt well and I felt it was very hard to rest. I felt sad, resigned, and vulnerable. I felt self-pity. After going through the ERASED Process, I was able to access a new response and new knowledge. The words, “Rest properly, Kind, Gently, forgive myself for not functioning as I do when I’m not afflicted rose up in my mind.” Be merciful towards myself. And for the first time I am acknowledging that it’s very tough for me when my autoimmune disease flares up.” I felt these new responses viscerally in my body, not just as an intellectual observation. I have engaged someone who will take on some of my work commitments during the week. And for the next year I want to focus more on an area of real interest in my profession, while also having a more gentle time schedule to make space for a semi-retired lifestyle which gives flexibility to rest and to get away more. Thank you so much for your wisdom. It has been tremendously helpful.
Response from client who is well educated, intelligent and functions in a demanding professi
The Erased Short-Term Memory Reconsolidation Process – What is included
A complete process that includes the dynamical interaction between client and facilitator and the composite of all the unfolding, interrelated developmental parts and measures of the ERASED Memory Reconsolidation Process. These are:
- A comprehensive assessment: One to two live 75-minute online sessions, the number depending on the specific client dynamics and the necessary information required by the facilitator for the ERASED Memory Reconsolidation Process session. These initial sessions garner your transformational aims, goals and desires, your background information regarding past and current experiences, traumas, recurring aversive work and relationship experiences and difficulties around the specific issue you wish to transform. Dreams included in the assessment are taken into account. Included are the facilitator’s responses to client input and questions.
- Analysis of the assessment: An analysis of the assessment is separately performed by the facilitator for the purpose of eliciting and drawing out the past, mainly unconscious and unwanted learnings, the learned model, archetypal theme, or traumatic themes identified from information in the assessment – learnings, which were good strategies against suffering at the time, but now prove to be unmovable obstacles. Based on this evaluation, a personalized supportive experience of the ERASED Memory Reconsolidation Process is prepared by the facilitator. The evaluation and themes are presented to the client for comment, additions or alterations, agreement, and acceptance before following the six-step process.
- ERASED Memory Reconsolidation Process session: A 75-minute six-step ERASED Memory Reconsolidation Process session. The sequence of six steps is simple and pleasant to engage with. But, only simple from the perspective that the governing principles of human organism functioning, on which this psychoanalytical process is based, while complex, always operate with economy as a means of achieving a desired outcome.
- Verification by both the analyst and the client at the end of the Memory Reconsolidation Process session confirming that the process has been successful.
- A written summary of the original problematic unwanted learning, changes experienced, and the client’s new, transformational knowledge, which has permanently erased a previous learning, is made available.
- Two additional verifications are requested from the client to confirm permanent erasure and updating of new knowledge: 1. Four weeks after the ERASED Process. 2. Six months later.
Costs And The Erased Short-Term Memory Reconsolidation Process
The ERASED Process does not function on a session-by-session basis, as does therapy, counseling or traditional long-term psychoanalysis. It is an assemblage of a coordinated and interconnected series of actions, sessions, and measures. These are combined into a unitary whole process with the sole purpose being, transformation of a specific difficulty and its suffering. The ERASED Memory Reconsolidation Process thus draws a single fee, based on a complete, inclusive process.
ERASED MEMORY RECONSOLIDATION PROCESS PACKAGE FEE:
A limited-time discounted fee for the complete ERASED Memory Reconsolidation Process is
R12, 900.00 and is required before the process commences. Kindly note that arrangements can be made to pay this off over time if required. To register or for more information please contact Leslie at: leslie.zimmermann@gmail.com or 083 384 9812
LONG-TERM TRADITIONAL ANALYSIS IS ALSO AVAILABLE. AND A COMBINED LONG-TERM PLUS THE SHORT-TERM ERASED PROCESS IS ALSO OFFERED.
Kindly enquire for details
QUALIFICATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS
MA in Research Psychology, Cum Laude (Witwatersrand University, South Africa),
Post-graduate Diplomate: Accredited Analytical Psychologist (C.G. Jung Institute-Zürich, Switzerland)
Member: SAPC (South African Psychoanalytic Confederation)
Member: IAAP (International Association for Analytical Psychology)
Member: SAAJA (Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts)