I don&#x27;t think your summary is accurate.<p>It is more than <i>relieving</i> &quot;the trigger emotion&quot;. According to the linked study, there is an <i>ending</i> of the conditioned fear-response itself:<p>&quot;Disrupting reconsolidation of fear memory transformed avoidance behavior into approach behavior in a virtual binary fashion—an effect that persisted at least 1 year after treatment&quot;<p>... which ending naturally segues into approaching.