AEDP Institute

Making Good Use of Suffering: Intra-Relational AEDP Work with Pathogenic Affects

An AEDP Southwest Workshop at the Albuquerque Museum in Historic Old Town Albuquerque NM

with Jerry Lamagna, LCSW

This workshop will explore the challenges and opportunities of working with clients mired in overwhelming affective experiences. In AEDP, pathogenic affects linked to “self-at-worst” such as unbearable aloneness and “toxic” levels of shame and anxiety have often been viewed as experiences holding little therapeutic potential. The goal has traditionally been to get past them so that underlying core affects can be accessed and processed therapeutically.

Joining differentiation techniques drawn from Buddhist psychology, Gestalt therapy and IFS, with AEDP’s experiential tracking, metaprocessing, and mindful attention to relational and intra-relational experience, Mr. Lamagna will demonstrate how such moments of overwhelm can offer patients profound opportunities for self-recognition, self-regulation and self-compassion.

Rather than processing core affects derived from categorical emotions like anger and grief, such work engenders core affect linked to interconnection, recognition and self-understanding. These moments of coherence and integration in turn provide experiences of strength, hope, safety, and mastery that fuel ongoing change-for-the-better.

Meet the Presenters

Jerry Lamagna, LCSW

jerry-lamagnaJerry Lamagna, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City and Westfield, New Jersey. After completing his graduate studies at Adelphi University in 1993, he participated in a six month residency at the Caron Foundation’s Center for Self Development, and for six years thereafter his work focused on issues in chemical dependency/ACOA treatment. He currently works with individuals in AEDP psychotherapy, addressing problems related to trauma, dissociation, addiction, depression, low self worth and personality disorders. Throughout his career, Mr. Lamagna’s interest in affect based, experiential treatment approaches has led to his extensive training in psychodrama, EMDR, ego state therapy, trauma/dissociative disorder treatment, and most recently, AEDP. The study of these modalities has inspired his ongoing efforts to integrate relational, intra-psychic, and experiential elements into his clinical work. Mr. Lamagna, along with Dr. Kari Gleiser has developed a modified version of AEDP for the treatment of dissociative disorders. He has presented at national conferences sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI), the International Experiential and Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA), the New Jersey chapter of NASW and the AEDP Institute. In January 2007, the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation published a paper written by Mr. Lamagna and Dr. Gleiser entitled “Building a secure internal attachment: An intra-relational approach to ego strengthening and emotional processing with chronically traumatized clients.” A subsequent article, "Of the self, by the self and for the self:Internal Attachment, attunement and psychological change" was published in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration in 2012.

Fee and Credits

  • $130 group of 3 or more & students
  • $145 early bird (up to 2 weeks prior – through Oct 10, 2015)
  • $170 regular fee (after Oct 10, 2015)

Register at the AEDP Southwest Site

Includes continental breakfast, snacks, coffee/tea, and 6 Continuing Education credits for masters level clinical psychotherapists (non-psychologists). You will have 90 minutes for lunch on your own. We will provide a list of nearby Old Town restaurants.

Event Details:

Date/Time

10/24/2015
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Registration starts at 8:30 am

Location

The Albuquerque Museum in Historic Old Town
2000 Mountain Road NW
Albuquerque, NM
87106

 
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