The recently developed Flash technique enables a therapy client to rapidly and (nearly) painlessly reduce the distress level of an upsetting memory. Pending further research, Flash appears to represent an advance in trauma therapy, in that a) a client who might not otherwise have been able to face a distressing memory will be able to face it and work it through, and b) time to completion of p ...

How long does it take to get traumatized? A few minutes? A few seconds? The brain can make profound changes very quickly – right?

So how long does it take to get untraumatized, to heal? Can the brain make that profound change quickly as well?

As it turns out: Yeah, pretty much.

EMDR set the standard for efficient, effective trauma therapy (Greenwald et al, 2017), and PC may be even more efficien ...