The Importance of Implicit Memory

In the same way, we can have other kinds of implicit memory, models that go something like this. I have a patient who came in one day for a session after they'd had a fight and he just left the kitchen. He was remembering by his very action. It was an embodied remembrance without him even paying attention to the fact that it's his father who's actually standing behind her in the kitchen. And what's beautiful about being able to then talk about this and bring this implicit memory forward is that he's able to recognize that what he's sensing and imaging and feeling and perceiving isn't just automatic thing over which he has no control. In order to make it explicit, which