Main description:

This book updates clinical guidance and theory for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), an approach that gives patients corrective emotional and relational experiences that mobilize changes in the brain.

Practitioners of AEDP understand psychopathology as a byproduct of internal working models, borne out of insecure attachment experiences, that now thwart adaptive functioning in adulthood. The goal of AEDP is to be therapeutically present with patients and their pain and to guide them to have a new experience-a good experience-thus rewiring memory and capacity to reflect. Updates to the AEDP approach (moving it into its second iteration, or "2.0") leverage emerging findings from the field of affective neuroscience to enhance individuals' healing and transformation.

The authors demonstrate the power of relational work by sharing excerpts and analysis of clinical session transcripts. In each chapter, they engage different aspects of the AEDP model to show how emotional suffering can be transformed into adaptive connection, even for individuals with histories of neglect, abuse, and complex trauma.

Contents:

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: AEDP After Twenty Years, Diana Fosha
Part I. Healing From the Get-go
Chapter 1. How AEDP Works, Diana Fosha
Chapter 2. The First Session in AEDP: Harnessing Transformance and Co-creating a Secure Attachment, Karen Kranz
Part II. Context and Scaffolding
Chapter 3. Historical Context: AEDP's Place in the World of Psychotherapy, Gil Tunnell and Jenna Osiason
Chapter 4. What Just Happened? And What is Happening Now? The Art and Science of Moment-to-Moment Tracking in AEDP, Yuko Hanakawa
Chapter 5. A Shift in Focus: Making Use of Therapist Experience in AEDP, Ben Lipton
Chapter 6. Using AEDP's Representational Schemas to Scaffold the Therapist's Attunement and Engagement, Karen Pando-Mars
Part III. How to Work with Core Affective Experience: Attachment, Emotion, Self
Chapter 7. Neuroplasticity in Action: Rewiring Internal Working Models of Attachment, Ron Frederick
Chapter 8. Portrayals in AEDP: Processing Core Affective Experience and Bringing it to Completion, Ben Medley
Chapter 9. Agency, Will, and Desire as Core Affective Experience: Undoing Disempowerment to Foster the Emergence of the Agentic Self, Eileen Russell
Part IV. How to Work with Maladaptive Affective Experience and Complex Trauma
Chapter 10. Fierce Love: Championing the Core Self to Transform Trauma and Pathogenic States, SueAnne Piliero
Chapter 11. Finding Healing in the Broken Places: Intra-Relational AEDP Work With Traumatic Aloneness, Jerry Lamagna
Chapter 12. Relational Prisms: Navigating Experiential Attachment Work with Dissociation and Multiplicity in AEDP, Kari Gleise
Part V. Integration, Flourishing, Core State, and the Core Self
Chapter 13. What Went Right? What Happens in the Brain During AEDP's Metatherapeutic Processing, Danny Yeung
Chapter 14. "We are organized to be better than fine": Building the Transformational Theory of AEDP 2.0, Diana Fosha
Chapter 15. Future Directions for AEDP, Diana Fosha
Appendix. The Phenomenology of the Four-State Transformational Process in AEDP
Index
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