Kindt Clinics in the media
Seen on television
The Fear Clinic (Channel 4)
Starting Tuesday, January 21, 2025, the English TV channel Channel 4 will air The Fear Clinic, a six-part series about our clinic. The series follows the journey of 18 British clients being treated at Kindt Clinics for their fears.
The Nature of Things (CBC)
The Canadian documentary program The Nature of Things (CBC) came to Amsterdam to interview Merel Kindt and film a few treatments. This episode shows parts of the treatments of Eva who suffers from a fear of heights, and Mirjam who came in for her phobia of chickens.
Merel Kindt and Kindt Clinics in written media
Documentary A Cure For Fear
Lana Wilson Lana Wilson, a documentary filmmaker for National Geographic among others, made a documentary about the Memrec method. She filmed several treatments and extensively interviewed Merel Kindt. Thanks to the producer Topic the documentary is available to watch online for free. The documentary consists of 4 parts, 15 minutes each.
Please note: the documentary contains images of butterflies, mice, cats, spiders and needles.
Scientific articles
Below is a selection of scientific publications on the Memrec method (memory reconsolidation) and the work of Prof. Dr. Merel Kindt and colleagues:
- Kindt, M. & Soeter, M. (2018). Pharmacologically induced amnesia for learned fear is time and sleep dependent. Nature Communications, 9,1316
- Kindt, M. (2017). The surprising subtleties of changing fear memory: a challenge for translational science. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 373: 20170033.
- Soeter, M., & Kindt, M. (2015). An abrupt transformation of phobic behavior following a post-retrieval amnesic agent. Biological Psychiatry, 78, 880-886.
- Sevenster, D., Beckers, T. & Kindt, M. (2013). Prediction error governs pharmacologically induced amnesia for learned fear. Science, 339, 830-833.
- Soeter, M., & Kindt, M. (2012). Stimulation of the noradrenergic system during memory formation impairs extinction learning but not the disruption of reconsolidation. Neuropsychopharmacology, 37, 1204-1215
- Kindt, M. , Soeter, M., & Vervliet, B. (2009). Beyond extinction: Erasing human fear responses and preventing the return of fear. Nature Neuroscience, 12, 256-258.