The article describes the successful treatment of Valerie, a middle-aged woman whose heretofore unknown traumatic past was remembered and expressed through flashback states that began to emerge suddenly after several years of analytic work. The global-process brain model, conceptualized by Gerald Edelman (Edelman, 2004), and particularly his depiction of two levels of consciousness, elucidated for patient and analyst the nature and meaning of these mysterious happenings that had begun to punctuate their work together. Slowly, as these phenomena were understood in the context of Valerie’s life-as-lived, these painful, and at times overwhelming, experiences could be integrated into Valerie’s experiential sense of self. She was ultimately helped to mourn her past, accept her present, and trust herself in an expanded vision of her future.