Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0
Also known as Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing, Undoing Aloneness, AEDP 2.0, Undoing Aloneness (2021)
Diana Fosha's edited update of AEDP twenty years on: healing, transformation, flourishing
At a glance
What it argues
Healing is wired in, Aloneness causes suffering, Experience before insight …
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Metatherapeutic processing, Four-state transformational process, Transformance …
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The first session, Fierce Love, Healing in the broken places …
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Research still young
Read next
The Transforming Power of Affect, Supervision Essentials for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, AEDP
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Diana Fosha, Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP) and 3 others
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- An edited volume that updates AEDP twenty years after Fosha first described it.
- AEDP sees psychopathology as unwilled, unwanted aloneness in the face of overwhelming emotions.
- So the therapist's first job is to undo that aloneness and regulate emotion together with the patient.
- Version 2.0 adds a theory of transformation: positive feelings of healing are explored as carefully as pain.
- Chapters by AEDP faculty use session transcripts, including work with neglect, abuse and complex trauma.
Why it matters
- For therapists who know the basics and want AEDP as it is practised now.
- Read Fosha's introduction first; it maps the whole model and the book.
Key facts
- Editor
- Diana Fosha1
- Published
- 20211
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association1
- Award
- AAP PROSE Award winner3
- Contents
- Introduction and 15 chapters in five parts, by Fosha and AEDP faculty2
- Audience
- Therapists; cases include clients with histories of neglect, abuse and complex trauma4
What it argues
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Healing is wired in2
Everyone carries the power to heal and grow; AEDP uses healing, not pathology, as its starting point.
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Aloneness causes suffering2
Psychopathology results from unwilled and unwanted aloneness in the face of overwhelming emotions.
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Experience before insight2
Bottom-up felt experience is privileged over narrative; insight follows transformation, not the other way round.
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From 1.0 to 2.02
Between 2004 and 2009 AEDP moved from an attachment-and-emotion model to attachment, emotion and transformation.
Key ideas
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Metatherapeutic processing2
After a change, therapist and patient explore the experience of changing itself and the positive feelings it brings.
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Four-state transformational process2
From the distress people bring (State 1) to wholeness, calm and connection (State 4).
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Transformance2
The innate drive to heal, introduced in 2008.
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Corrective experiences4
Patients get corrective emotional and relational experiences that rewire memory and the capacity to reflect.
Examples from the book
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The first session2
Karen Kranz on harnessing transformance and co-creating a secure attachment from the first meeting.
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Fierce Love2
SueAnne Piliero on championing the core self to transform trauma.
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Healing in the broken places2
Jerry Lamagna on intra-relational work with traumatic aloneness.
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Session transcripts4
Each chapter analyses excerpts from real sessions.
Criticism and limits
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Research still young2
Fosha writes that most of AEDP's first 20 years went into theory-building and description; empirical research began in the past decade.
Read next
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The Transforming Power of Affect
The 2000 book this one updates.
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Supervision Essentials for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
How AEDP skills are taught.
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The approach and its evidence.
Connections
Links
Sources
- Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing (AEDP Institute books) (opens aedpinstitute.org)
- Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: contents and introduction (APA sample chapter) (opens apa.org)
- Diana Fosha (Wikipedia) (opens en.wikipedia.org)
- Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing (PESI) (opens pesi.com)
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