title: Clinical applications of counterfactual thinking during memory reactivation.
abstract: The Integrative Memory Model offers a strong foundation upon which to build successful strategies for clinical intervention. The next challenge is to figure out which cognitive strategies are more likely to bring about successful and beneficial modifications of reactivated memories during therapy. In this commentary we suggest that exercising emotional regulation during episodic counterfactual thinking is likely to be a successful therapeutic strategy to bring about beneficial memory modifications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy,Duke University,Durham,NC 27708.felipe.debrigard@duke.eduwww.felipedebrigard.com.
authors.forename: Felipe
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Brigard
authors.affiliation: Center for Cognitive Neuroscience,Duke University,Durham,NC 27708.eleanor.hanna@duke.edu.
authors.forename: Eleanor
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hanna
mesh_terms: D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D013850:Thinking