personally, that technique hasn't worked well for me, although I know it has for a lot of others here. I was getting too overwhelmed and unstable when I try remembering and/or talking about stuff and it was really hurting me. It took a long hospitalization and a different group of experts to tell me that this was not a good way for me to go. So I process symptoms, learn to handle the symptoms as they come up, and try to keep a wide space between me and my past. Yea I know it's there...big and ugly...but I don't have to look at it or touch I am learning how to live around it.
Like I said many others have been helped by processing the trauma, and I don't mean to downplay that at all, its a big brave incredible thing to do. I am just pointing out that there is a different school of thought.