Stabilization is a crucial pillar in order to face the traumatic memories and process them. You cannot face the memories without it; any attempt to do it withou

Stabilization is a crucial pillar in order to face the traumatic memories and process them. You cannot face the memories without it; any attempt to do it without stabilization training would be ill-advised; actually, PTSD as diagnosis is "proof" that it's too overwhelming for the patient. The goal is not to "zap" memories but to relax the nervous system and to anchor patients sufficiently in a "safe present" so one can then use techniques such as EMDR/hyponosis etc to unpack the trauma, step by step, without getting flooded and potentially retraumatized. Even the sensationalist headline talks "merely" about "erasing" PTSD: the stress disorder -- NOT the memories. Until full processing and integration (which can take years, decades!), traumatic memories are LIVE and unprocessed memories; they are re-experienced as if it was happening NOW; again and again (see e.g.: fMRI studies show that they activate brain regions responsible to process the present, in stark contrast to normal memory recall). This is not comparable to "being reminded about a past event and having strong feelings about it". That is the goal. Not erasure as if nothing ever happened.