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The Transforming Power Of Affect: A Model For Accelerated Change Hardcover – May 5, 2000

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A groundbreaking examination of the transformational power of affect and a technique for harnessing it in the psychotherapeutic setting

The first model of accelerated psychodynamic therapy to make the theoretical why as important as the formula for how, Fosha's original technique for catalyzing change mandates explicit empathy and radical engagement by the therapist to elicit and harness the patient's own healing affects. Its wide-open window on contemporary relational and attachment theory ushers in a safe, emotionally intense, experience-based pathway for processing previously unbearable feelings. This is a rich fusion of intellectual rigor, clinical passion, and practical moment-by-moment interventions.

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Affect is one of the last of the major psychological processes in psychotherapy to be focused on. This book is filled with a rich, deep understanding of how it works and how to work with it to produce lasting change. In Fosha's view, affect is the soil in which attachment grows; she demonstrates how acts of ommission and commission in caretaking interactions can lead to the unbearable pain that must be faced in therapy in order to heal. Fosha does an excellent job of applying the psychodynamic triangle of conflict to affective process, leads us through transcripts that differentiate defensive and primary adaptive core emotions, and offers strategies for facilitating emotional experience that in and of themselves make the book worth reading. -- Leslie S. Greenberg, Ph.D.

Dr. Fosha makes an original and profound contribution to the theory and technique of Short-term Psychotherapy, considerably broadening Alpert's Accelerated Empathic Therapy, out of which it has grown. Because of her poetical writing, her book is a pleasure to read: one might well imagine that Winnicott--to whom she acknowledges her debt--had come to life to write about Short-term Psychotherapy as it stands today. -- David Malan, D.M

The corporate hijackers of psychotherapy tell us we must settle -- for a little bit of change, for just symptom relief, or for the treatment of a committee-generated list of disorders. Now this remarkable book shows how much can really be accomplished, even in a brief time, if the aim is to return to the humanity of psychotherapy, to the crucial dimensions of affect and relationship. Fosha's volume is an inspiration to all therapists who wish to engage the core of feeling and humanity that is there to see in all our patients if we are brave enough and skillful enough to dare to enter. -- Paul Wachtel, Ph.D.

This is a splendid book that provides a creative synthesis of emotion theory, mother-infant research, and attachment theory and research, with principles and strategies drawn from both psychoanalytic and experiential traditions. A thoughtful guide to therapeutic intervention, it places emotion center-stage while always keeping in mind the relational matrix within which the various affective processes unfold. The result is a rich and artfully woven tapestry of ideas and therapeutic principles that will stimulate and reward clinicians of all orientations. -- Jeremy D. Safran, Ph.D.

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Diana Fosha, Ph.D., practices psychotherapy in New York, where she is Associate Clinical Professor at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Basic Books; 0 edition (May 5, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 388 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0465095674
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0465095674
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1260L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.36 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.38 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches

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Diana Fosha, PhD, is the developer of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), a healing-based, transformation-oriented model of psychotherapeutic treatment and she is Founder and Director of the AEDP Institute. For the last 20 years, Diana has been active in promoting a scientific basis for a healing-oriented, attachment-emotion-transformation focused trauma treatment model. Fosha's work focuses on integrating positive neuroplasticity, recognition science and developmental dyadic research into experiential and transformational clinical work with patients. Her most recent work focuses on promoting flourishing as a seamless part of AEDP’s therapeutic process of transforming emotional suffering. Drawing on affective neuroscience, attachment theory, mother-infant developmental research, and research documenting the undreamed-of plasticity in the adult brain, AEDP has developed an experiential clinical practice which reflects the integration of science, research and practice in psychotherapy.

Based in New York City, where she lives and practices, Fosha has been on the faculties of the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology of NYU and St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Medical Centers (now Mount Sinai) in NYC, and of the doctoral programs in clinical psychology at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University and at The City University of New York.

Described by psychoanalyst James Grotstein as a “prizefighter of intimacy,” and by David Malan as “the Winnicott of [accelerated experiential] psychotherapy,” Diana Fosha is known for her powerful, precise yet simultaneously poetic and evocative affective writing and presenting style. Diana’s phrases — “undoing aloneness,” “existing in the heart and mind of the other,” “True Other,” “make the implicit explicit and the explicit experiential,” “stay with it and stay with me,” “rigor without shame” and “judicious self-disclosure” — capture the ethos of AEDP.

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Uncle Buck

Outstanding, the best!

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2017

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Diane Fosha gives a thorough discussion of theory and then explains how and when to apply. Reading was thoroughly enjoyable. In order to get the most out of this book, I would recommend that you have some prior understanding of psychology or Attachment Theory.

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Earl R Poteet

Still A Worthwhile Read For Therapists!

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2013

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This book, even though written 13 years ago, continues to maintain its strength in informing people, who counsel others, with the in-depth knowledge that it provides. THe author gives outstanding guidance as to how people can have major breakthroughs in therapy, and shows how certain therapeutic sessions have worked in using the techniques. The in-depth knowledge that she provides with why people react to past-life traumas are cutting edge today and even more relevant when the most recent neuro-science is included in the mix! A must read for every clinical therapist!

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laurie slater

This is a wonderful book

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2011

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This one is one of the best books I have read about doing psychotherapy. It also covers an area that is not addressed very often, at least in my experience. Fosha describes why tracking people's moment-to-moment emotional experience in therapy is important, and gives a number of ideas about how to track this emotional experience. The book has changed the way I do therapy and I am very glad I read it.

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Dr. Blue Jacaranda

Rich In Ideas, Passionate, and Clinically Innovative

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2001

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Dr. Fosha has given us the gift of an important book, which combines easy access (fine writing), leading edge concepts in relational psychology and Intensive Psychotherapy, and the most helpful texts of clinical psychotherapy examples I have ever encountered. In fact, her running commentary (pithy and informal) on video transcripts from her own treatment is the perfect voice to accompany her chapter-long (and very helpful) illustrations of how the theoretical material on attachment and emotion-affect apply in real-life psychotherapy consultions and treatment. There are also some marvelous literary quotations sprinkled around, and solid recognition of the pathfinders ahead of her, from Darwin to Davenloo.

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Abella

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2018

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I really enjoyed this book and consider it a valuable resource.

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Peter A. Levine

An important contribution

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2001

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In this most important work Dr Fosha describes in clear prose and with engaging case material an emerging trend in the practice of effective short term psychotherapy. Her understanding and honoring of the internal landscape of the patients subjective experience and affect regulation will be an inspiration to new clinicians and a source of wisdom to seasoned veterans. Theory is presented in a clear accessible manner free of fluff and is enhanced by her lyrical narrative style.
Peter A. Levine Ph.D. Author of "Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma"

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Jacquie

Brilliant, best illustration of relationship building and essence of therapy work

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2013

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As a psychologist, I experience this book as ground-breaking. Every pages condensed of brilliant ideas, at the same time easy to understand and applicable. It fills the gaps for me after years of learning person-centered, psychodynamic and family systems therapy, and provided me answers with breath-taking clarity. I can also see the modesty and devotion of the author, which was very touching. In my opinion, every psychotherapist, beginner or old-timer, should read this book, particularly those who are interested in relationship building and the application of attachment theory in individual therapy.

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Liza Jane

Essential: Best when discussed with colleagues

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2013

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My Group Supervision group has been reading this for the last year and our discussion is consistently dynamic and informative and helps integrate this very rich material. I recommend reading this and discussing it with colleagues - it definitely assists in the integration process.

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Alan Eppel

Brilliant ! The future of Dynamic Psychotherapy starts here.

Reviewed in Canada on February 28, 2011

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In this book Diana Fosha describes her method of dynamic psychotherapy which she has named Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy: AEDP. The method focuses on the experience and processing of affects in therapy session in the context of a securely attached therapeutic relationship.

AEDP evolved from her training with Habib Davanloo who pioneered Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. But Fosha turns his confrontational approach on its head, replacing it with a powerfully engaging and empathic therapeutic approach.

Fosha also draws on Emotion Focused Therapy [Les Greenberg] , Michael Alpert's Accelerated Empathic Therapy, and David Malan's Brief Psychotherapy.

Bowlby's Attachment Theory forms the infrastructure for an essential dyadic framework. Above all she seems to me, closest to the legendary Donald Winnicott in the poetic humanity of her treatment method.

Fosha introduces many powerful innovations to the therapeutic process. Among the most striking is the use of empathy rather than confrontation to bypass defenses. Perhaps the most original technique is meta-therapeutic processing, in which therapist and patient reflect on the impact of what has transpired between them, after each round of emotional processing.

Fosha has brilliantly pulled together and integrated some of the best therapeutic interventions to derive a most powerful new generation dynamic psychotherapy.

Essential reading for all who wish to remain dynamic psychotherapists.

Alan Eppel

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dawn chesney-turner

An excellent text

Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2013

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Fosha's text is clear, articulate and informative. The meta-processing of the attachment relationship between client and counsellor is excellent. I highly recommend it.

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