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Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP)

An attachment-based, emotion-focused therapy in which the moment-to-moment emotional exchange between patient and therapist does the healing, and positive feelings that arise mark that change.

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Processing suffering fully can culminate in flourishing: aliveness, hope, clarity, agency, compassion and joy.

  1. Diana Fosha Psychologist who developed Accelerated… the processing of suffering, i.e., stress-based, traumatizing, painful emotional experiences naturally culminates in flourishing, i.e., deeply positive experiences of aliveness, hope, faith, clarity, agency, simplicity, compassion, joy, and truth Positive Affects and the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishingdoi.org · 1 Aug 2009
    the processing of suffering, i.e., stress-based, traumatizing, painful emotional experiences naturally culminates in flourishing, i.e., deeply positive experiences of aliveness, hope, faith, clarity, agency, simplicity, compassion, joy, and truth

Positive emotions that arise during painful work are markers that healing change is happening.

  1. Diana Fosha Psychologist who developed Accelerated… It is proposed that these emergent positive emotions are affective markers which signal the operation of healing transformational processes in psychotherapy. 'Nothing that feels bad is ever the last step': the role of positive emotions in experiential work with difficult emotional experiencesdoi.org · 1 Jan 2004
    It is proposed that these emergent positive emotions are affective markers which signal the operation of healing transformational processes in psychotherapy.

Deep, authentic emotional experience, regulated between patient and therapist, is a key agent of therapeutic change.

  1. Diana Fosha Psychologist who developed Accelerated… Deep authentic affective experience and its regulation through coordinated emotional interchanges between patient and therapist are viewed as key transformational agents. The dyadic regulation of affectdoi.org · 1 Feb 2001
    Deep authentic affective experience and its regulation through coordinated emotional interchanges between patient and therapist are viewed as key transformational agents.

When keeping a caregiver's attachment means excluding certain feelings, a person's ability to regulate emotion suffers.

  1. Diana Fosha Psychologist who developed Accelerated… When maintaining attachment with caregivers necessitates excluding particular affects, a patient's capacity to regulate emotion becomes compromised. The dyadic regulation of affectdoi.org · 1 Feb 2001
    When maintaining attachment with caregivers necessitates excluding particular affects, a patient's capacity to regulate emotion becomes compromised.

An emotionally alive therapy relationship helps people tolerate feelings and brings security and intimacy into other relationships.

  1. Diana Fosha Psychologist who developed Accelerated… Being in an emotionally alive therapeutic relationship enables patients to better tolerate and communicate affective states; doing so, in turn, fosters security, openness, and intimacy in their other relationships. The dyadic regulation of affectdoi.org · 1 Feb 2001
    Being in an emotionally alive therapeutic relationship enables patients to better tolerate and communicate affective states; doing so, in turn, fosters security, openness, and intimacy in their other relationships.