Diana Fosha on Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP): Trusting vitality

[@JohnMoseley]

It's funny, I watched this video a few years ago and it appears I hit 'like,' but, unlike this time, I didn't get that much out of it. I'd just read Hilary Jacobs Hendel's 'It's Not Always Depression,' a book on AEDP designed for a pop psychology audience, and was fairly caught up in AEDP's 'change triangle,' which you don't got into here. This is something that has continued to be an invaluable tool for me in getting past anxiety to deeper feeling. It often amazes others when I tell them about it, given how intractable anxiety feels for a lot of people. (Anyone wanting an explanation, get the book or ask me below.) What I don't seem to have been ready for during my previous viewing was the kindness of Fosha's approach. This time, what mattered enormously to me was the passage where she talks about noting little smiles, sighs, cessations of tension etc., pointing them out and asking the speaker to pay closer attention to them. A bit like a Freudian noting slips, which, for someone who's blocking their more cheerful emotions, they might really be. Right away, listening to the interview, I started to do this for myself and went very quickly from a little smile to laughter to very relieving tears. I did more work in this vein subsequently and it was a huge help in freely exploring my feelings about difficult areas of my life. This morning I did a little more and one of the feelings I had to own up to, very unfamiliar, like a little dissolution into light coloured air in my right sternum, was happiness. That is revolutionary for me, something I can barely remember ever feeling. It almost scared me, though writing that made me laugh. So, thank you and thanks Diana, in particular, you great, generous thinker. I'm pretty sure all this will continue to be very important to me.

[@Chiquepeace]

Just discovered your channel and listened now to couple of interviews. You are such a great host/interviewer. You are very knowledgeable, ask excellent questions and really let your guests shine. Thank you for your work and making these illuminating interviews available.

[@psychotherapyexperttalks4832]

Thanks Lisa!

[@MG-gz6kq]

I so hope that AEDP can be brought into eating disorders treatment. The field is in desperate need of a healing based model which helps people work through trauma (and does not further traumatize them). Thank you for the work you do!

[@1965simonfellows]

.."Undo aloneness by being-with" what a rich, poignant statement.Thanks for posting this.

[@yotamdalal613]

Very nice videos. Have you stopped recording these short lectures?

[@cliveburks]

Thanks very helpful for someone like me studying and training in the Rosen Method

[@kyleaaron6325]

Wow, Diana really exudes the spirit of this approach! She is no doubt a wonderful therapist!

[@michelleselman8004]

Dr Fosha offered an informative training with video sessions teaching the AEDP way of supporting a client on the PESI platform around May/ June 2024 it was a free live offering and currently for sale!! It truly expanded my knowledge and offers this profound way of supporting clients it was so transformative to witness!

[@babycakes2077]

Winnecott was the BEST therapist that ever lived!

[@idrissstudio8943]

Wow vey impressed with your questions Alexander. They show the research you did on your guest, not just on the surface. You can be proud of yourself. Discovered your channel with this video. I'll be checking your other interviews for sure

[@enatp6448]

As always. Thanks for sharing the love...

[@carolmcbrideonline]

Excellent interview, and series - just discovered this today! Obrigada! You covered so much material with Diane in this interview, looking forward to hearing the others. A wonderful interview, truly! ~ The Trauma Project on Facebook (feel free to join) Muita obrigada! Parabéns!

[@jjbb9]

Super and thank you for your work! I can personally attest to the power of AEDP therapy in my own life. It's been a beautiful experience :>

[@henriques58]

Abraço Alexandre. Parabéns pelo bom trabalho. Keep going!

[@alexmagalhaesvaz]

Grande Anibal, muito obrigado! Mais uma vez, parte do mérito vai na sua direcção! Grande abraço

[@enverjusufbegovic5566]

It is really enjoyable watching Diana, authentic, energized, enthusiastic, experienced, knowligable...really engaged. Wonderful approach to therapy, too...and the name of modality is interesting, although it could be named just by one word, gestalt :)

[@susanbettis574]

There is absolutely nothing new here, same old, same old. And to say that this changes the brain is hearsay.

[@1965simonfellows]

Miss/Mrs Bettis "there is absolutely nothing new here....... for me " otherwise you're talking out of your arse.

[@CMch22]

I didn't take away that she was claiming to provide something new, but a different framework that organizes existing therapeutic concepts in a way that helps therapists foster real change and transformation. She has stated many times process-experiential theories exist, but has stated she felt there wasn't as much emphasis on the "how."

[@Me_ThatsWho]

@@CMch22 Chris, good point. I'd say this is just how good therapists work. I'd guess that a good therapists are more alike than different in how they work, but bad therapists have many, many ways in which they can work poorly and can look very different from one another.

[@ilikehummusandpicklesandwi6642]

Actually the current brain science around memory reconsolidation is saying that AEDP and other experiential therapies are literally brain plasticity in action. But this comment was from 5 years ago...