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Relearning Therapy is for therapists who want to improve their understanding of emotional problems and their therapeutic practice, and for people who want to understand where their therapeutic problem came from and how it can be resolved. The book comprehensively explains how emotional or psychological problems are created, and how they can be permanently resolved by identifying their biographical origins and relearning the experience.In response to a diffifficult circumstance, a person modifies her behaviour to minimize the impact on her personal dignity. For example, a person learns that by keeping her head down she is less likely to receive criticism from herstep father. In the future, to protect herself from criticism, she keeps her head down, just as she learned to do as a teenager. The learned behaviour, motivated by feelings from the past (not thoughts), becomes a therapeutic problem when it interferes with the person's pursuit of a desired goal.Relearning Experience Process uses the feelings motivating the problem behaviour to identify the past experience underlying the problem. The past experience is relearned, neutralizing the problematic feeling and resolving the problem behaviour.The book explores and provides an answer to the following questions:¿ How should the unconscious be understood?¿ What is the relationship and interaction between conscious and unconscious?¿ What is emotion, and is there a distinction between emotions and feelings?¿ What motivates behaviour?¿ What are, or should be, the aims of therapy?¿ What therapies are the most successful, and what makes them successful?¿ Why do psychological problems develop in a person: how and why are they created?¿ Why do they take the forms that they do in terms of feelings and behaviour?¿ What kinds of experiences lead to emotional problems; and what differentiates these experiences from experiences that don't lead to emotional problems?¿ Is it possible to find the origins of psychological problems in the biography of an individual?¿ Why do problems manifest at the time when they do, sometimes years or even decades following the experiences underlying them?¿ What actually is a psychological problem; how should psychological problems be defined or described?¿ What differentiates less successful from more successful psychological interventions?¿ Can psychological or emotional problems be fully and finally resolved; or do people have to learn to live with them, as we are often led to believe?¿ Is it possible to develop a comprehensive understanding of the nature of psychological problems, and a coherent theory of how and why they develop and how to treat them?

Relearning Experience introduces an innovative and original brief therapy for the permanent resolution of emotional and psychological problems.The book provides a new and comprehensive psychological theory of the genesis, development and manifestation of therapeutic problems, making the book indispensable reading for clinical practitioners and all serious students of human motivation and psychology. The method described in the book, Relearning Experience Process, explains how to identify the origins of a therapeutic problem in a person's biography and transform behaviour, thereby resolving the therapeutic problem.New critical ideas The concept of unconscious body The meanings of and differences between feeling and emotion and how to identify emotions accurately How learning from experience creates an inescapable precedent for future pathological behaviour The distinction between beliefs and learning, central to understanding behaviour How problem behaviour once provided a solution The importance of formulating goals that are more appealing than the problem Why feelings motivate action The distinction between practical and therapeutic goals The universal quest for personal dignity that underlies all human interaction Innovations The book throws light on many formerly intractable problems in psychology, overturns traditional viewpoints, and introduces radical new conceptions. The author, Jonathan Livingstone, who has 30 years' experience as a clinician and educator, argues that the idea of mental health is a misnomer and what is regarded as unconscious mind should be understood as unconscious body. The relationship between emotions and feelings is described and a method of accurately identifying emotions is explained. The book argues that feelings drive behaviour and the quest for personal dignity underlies all human interaction. The denial of feelings underlies pathological behaviour, which is subsequently rationalized and justified. The genesis of a therapeutic problem Central to the work is the discovery that unwanted behaviour relates to an experience in the past when a person modified his or her behaviour in order to cope with or ameliorate a difficult situation. This 'remedial' behaviour becomes the unconscious blueprint, or precedent, for behaviour in similar circumstances subsequently, and cannot be overridden by conscious will. When this behaviour prevents a person from achieving a desired goal, it becomes a therapeutic problem. Finding the origins of problems Although the original experience creating the problem behaviour is ordinarily unknown and unconscious, it can be discovered by a simple process called 'tracking back'. This process identifies the origin of almost any psychological problem within minutes. Once the experience has been identified, the therapeutic problem is resolved through a 'relearning' of that experience. The relearning provides an alternative reference so that the body can unlearn the original, pathological response. The resolution is permanent and absolute, effected by an intervention made at the site of the original experience. Game changer Relearning Experience is a game changer in psychology. Unlike traditional psychotherapeutic methods, it doesn't require months or years of application; unlike cognitive therapy, it doesn't simply tackle behavioural symptoms: the book explains how permanent transformation can be achieved in hours or minutes, through resolution of the problem's origins. Although the ideas are new and challenging, the arguments are so plausible they seem almost to be common