In modern psychology, some therapists have started using a technique known as imagery rescripting: A patient revisits an original, traumatic memory and gives it new context — essentially revising the events in a way that gives themselves what they believe they needed and didn’t receive in that moment.
Let’s say the bad memory in question involved a bottle of Jägermeister you chugged in a frat house basement and the propulsive aftermath: a previously consumed six-piece meal from Raising Cane’s vomited on the walk home to your dorm. What if you rewrote that memory — instead of drinking the Jägermeister straight from the bottle, it ended up in a
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