Diana Fosha
Also known as Diana Fosha, PhD
Psychologist who developed AEDP and directs the AEDP Institute in New York.
At a glance
Roles
AEDP Institute (Founder and director) and Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP)
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Transformance, Feel it through, together, Metatherapeutic processing …
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The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (2000), Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 (2021), The Healing Power of Emotion (2009, with Dan Siegel and Marion Solomon) …
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Attachment theory, Psychodynamic psychotherapy and 4 others
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- Diana Fosha is a clinical psychologist who developed accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP).
- She trained with Habib Davanloo in short-term dynamic psychotherapy, then built a model on different premises.
- Her core idea is transformance, an innate drive to heal and grow.
- She coined the term metatherapeutic processing for reflecting on change as it happens.
- She founded and directs the AEDP Institute.
Why it matters
- For therapists working with attachment trauma: her model puts healing, positive emotion and the relationship at the centre of change.
Key facts
- Born
- Bucharest, Romania; moved with her family to New York City at 121
- Education
- Psychology at Barnard College; doctorate in clinical psychology, City College of New York; postdoctoral training with Habib Davanloo1
- Known for
- Developing AEDP; the ideas of transformance and metatherapeutic processing1
- Current role
- Founder and director of the AEDP Institute2
- Teaching
- Faculty roles at NYU, St. Luke's–Roosevelt (now Mount Sinai), Adelphi University's Derner Institute and the City University of New York2
- Honours
- AAP Prose Award for Undoing Aloneness (AEDP 2.0)1
Roles
Main ideas
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Transformance1
People have a built-in drive to heal and grow, and therapy works by calling on it.
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Feel it through, together1
With the therapist's help, patients experience previously blocked emotion in a regulated way until it completes.
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Metatherapeutic processing1
After a change, the patient reflects on the change itself; she coined the term for this step.
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Sources of the model1
Attachment neuroscience, caregiver–infant research, positive psychology, emotion research and the study of sudden change.
Books to start with
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The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (2000)2
The book that introduced AEDP, from Basic Books.
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Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 (2021)2
The updated model, from the American Psychological Association.
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The Healing Power of Emotion (2009, with Dan Siegel and Marion Solomon)2
An edited book on affective neuroscience, development and clinical practice.
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Supervision Essentials for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (2016, with Natasha Prenn)2
On supervising AEDP, from the APA.
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Writes
- Supervision Essentials for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic PsychotherapyBook
- The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical PracticeBookCo-editor
- The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated ChangeBook
- Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0BookEditor; wrote the introduction and three chapters
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Sources
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