Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing

Diana Fosha, PhD, is the developer of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), a healing-oriented psychotherapy to treat attachment trauma and help people connect to their vitality. She is director of the AEDP Institute. Her work focuses on integrating neuroplasticity, recognition science and developmental dyadic research into experiential clinical process work with patients. With an interest in the phenomenology of experience, she is on the cutting edge of transformational theory and practice. AEDPs transformational theory, putting neuroplasticity and attachment into clinical action, is similarly receiving recognition. She lives and practices in New York City and leads workshops and trainings worldwide.

Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: AEDP After Twenty Years Diana Fosha Part I. Healing From the Get-go Chapter 1. How AEDP Works Chapter 2. The First Session in AEDP: Harnessing Transformance and Co-creating a Secure Attachment Part II. Context and Scaffolding Chapter 3. Historical Context: AEDP's Place in the World of Psychotherapy Chapter 4. What Just Happened? And What is Happening Now? The Art and Science of Moment-to-Moment Tracking in AEDP Chapter 5. A Shift in Focus: Making Use of Therapist Experience in AEDP Chapter 6. Using AEDP's Representational Schemas to Scaffold the Therapist's Attunement and Engagement Part III. How to Work with Core Affective Experience: Attachment, Emotion, Self Chapter 7. Neuroplasticity in Action: Rewiring Internal Working Models of Attachment Chapter 8. Portrayals in AEDP: Processing Core Affective Experience and Bringing it to Completion Chapter 9. Agency, Will, and Desire as Core Affective Experience: Undoing Disempowerment to Foster the Emergence of the Agentic Self 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 Chapter 11. Finding Healing in the Broken Places: Intra-Relational AEDP Work With Traumatic Aloneness Chapter 12. Relational Prisms: Navigating Experiential Attachment Work with Dissociation and Multiplicity in AEDP 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 Chapter 14. "We are organized to be better than fine": Building the Transformational Theory of AEDP 2.0 Chapter 15. Future Directions for AEDP Appendix. The Phenomenology of the Four-State Transformational Process in AEDP Index About the Editor