A new way to work with emotional trauma based on contextual therapy is the philosophical current of functional contextualism. This method helps to release emotional blocks and emphasizes the patient’s verbal behavior and the values he possesses. Contextual Memory is the ability to remember and separate a real source of information from a specific memory. This memory can include time, place, people, emotions, as well as any other context associated with it. For the revocation of contextual memory of emotional trauma , recall in a context similar to that of coding and storage seems very useful.
The typical function of contextual memory is precisely that of providing material for a recollection, and not through direct recollection of the same. Through exposure to the circumstantial peculiarities that occurred. The retrieval of contextual memory, at the brain level, occurs through the interaction of a process in which the hippocampus. The pre-frontal cortex, and the amygdala are involved, the most important activity would be performed by the ventral-anterior hippocampus.
A protein has been identified that seems able to help the brain in the formation of memories. Very recent neuroimaging studies have validated the existence of a specific part of the brain which, rather than being identified with the more generic function, linked to the functioning of the hippocampus. Seems more closely related to the recall of specific contextual episodes of emotional trauma
