Memory reconsolidation in psychotherapy for severe perfectionism within borderline personality.

Abstract in brief

• This case study explores how memory reconsolidation (MR) techniques can effectively treat severe perfectionism and borderline personality disorder by unlearning traumatic emotional responses, leading to a significant reduction in perfectionistic and self-harming behaviors within a year of therapy.
• The therapist used a combination of clinical skills focused on MR to deactivate deep-seated emotional learnings associated with trauma, demonstrating that this approach can produce profound psychological change.
• The findings suggest that MR offers a promising, unified framework for understanding and enhancing psychotherapeutic treatments by targeting the implicit emotional memories that drive symptoms like perfectionism, trauma, and self-harm.]