Relearning Experience Process is a new psychological theory and therapeutic practice The book provides a comprehensive psychological theory of the genesis, development and manifestation of therapeutic or clinical problems, making the book indispensable reading for psychotherapists, 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 behavior, thereby resolving the therapeutic problem.
The origins of problems Although the original experience underlying the problem behavior 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 book is an exposition of the following ideas (1) A therapeutic problem is created when, in response to a difficult experience, a person develops behavior that serves to ameli- orate the threat to her personal dignity (emotional wellbeing). (2) This behavior, developed as a solution in a moment of crisis, sets an unconscious and involuntary precedent for future behavior in circumstances perceived to be similar. (3) Activated automatically by feelings, this behavior becomes a therapeutic problem if it interferes with what the person wants. (4) The difficult experience that occurred at the genesis of the therapeutic problem is discoverable via the feelings associated with the problem behavior. (5) An intervention at the origins of the problem, which, in imagination, reconfigures the original behavior, enables the person to choose her behavior freely in the present, and resolves the therapeutic problem completely and permanently.
