After Life and building a life worth remembering with BPD and EMDR

Would you choose to hold on to a bad memory for eternity? In this bonus episode, I explain how EMDR therapy and a rewatch of the glorious Japanese film, After Life, made me reflect on memory.   Hirokazu Kore-eda, director, After Life (1998 film) American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.) Anne Carson, Economy of the Unlost Marsha Linehan, Building a Life Worth Living Viet Thanh Nguyen, “In Memoriam” Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma