Revivification

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but I don't think I'd use revivification there. I think revivification of a painful memory could cause an abreaction. I'd instead have the client turn the memory black and white, put it in a picture frame, and move it far away, to lessen the emotional impact of it.

Hi Salad,

Thanks for the answer. It's for social anxiety, and I'm particularly wanting to trigger the feeling so the memory can be overwritten more easily. (as per memory reconsolidation)

You might find EMDR/IEMT techniques useful for desensitization and supportive reprocessing of social anxiety as well.

The IEMT revivification process I learned:

!. Do you have a state of mind, an emotional thing, that's a problem?
2. On a score out of 10, ten being really strong, how strong is this feeling?
3. How familiar is this feeling?
4. And when is the 1st time you can remember feeling this feeling? It may not be the 1st time it ever happened, but it is the first time that you can remember now.
5. How vivid is this feeling? (Question 4. can be asked again to intensify the response.)

There's also:

1. Ask about the event you want to elicit.
2. Ask detailed questions -- who, what, when, where, how -- engaging as many sensory inputs as is possible.
3. Ask forward leading questions; connect "And then what happened?" to what happens next, and then the next that happens after that.
4. Connect and shift past tense to present time using present tense.
5. Connect and shift what's felt from an external experience to one that's experienced internally -- "And as you're sitting in that chair, now noticing are you feeling deeply relaxed...or is this simply a sensation, maybe one of comfort and ease." (That example will have to be edited for your purpose.)

Thanks TLM - useful info/