Neuroplasticity in Action: Rewiring Internal Working Models – London, UK
Congress Attachment and Trauma:
Resilience of the Mind and Body
Sunday, May 14th, 2017
London, UK
NEUROPLASTICITY IN ACTION: REWIRING INTERNAL WORKING MODELS
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), one of the fastest growing approaches to working with attachment trauma, has developed a neu- robiologically based psychotherapeutic process with rich, creative, systematic interventions to transform attachment trauma and rewire internal working mo- dels of attachment. It features a 3 factor — relatedness, emotion & transforma- tion– theory of change. Featuring an explicitly empathic, af rming, emotionally engaged therapeutic stance, AEDP is fearless in working with the experience of the patient-therapist attachment, moment-to-moment tracking and processing it rigorously.
This presentation will showcase AEDP with its clinical focus on di- rectly translating attachment research into the clinical practice of fostering secure attachment through explicit and experiential work with: 1. here-and-now expe- riences within the therapeutic dyad; 2. receptive affective experiences, of feeling felt, feeling seen, and feeling loved; 3. dyadic affect regulation and processing of unbearable emotions; and 4. dyadic affect regulation and processing of transfor- mational experience. Processing both traumatic and restorative emotional expe- riences to completion, the AEDP process culminates in vitality, energy, and the non- nite positive emotion-fueled spirals of resilience, well-being and creativity that are so highly correlated with health. Making extensive use of videotaped ma- terial from actual psychotherapy sessions to illustrate both affective phenomena and clinical techniques, this presentation will demonstrate speci c relational, ex- periential, somato-sensory and transformational strategies for putting neuropla- sticity into moment-to-moment clinical action.
Meet the Presenter
Diana Fosha, PhD
Diana Fosha, Ph.D., is the developer of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), a healing-based, transformation-oriented model of psychotherapeutic treatment; she is Founder and Director of the AEDP Institute. Based in New York City, she 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 and The City University of New York. Diana Fosha is the author of The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (Basic Books, 2000), and of numerous articles on an attachment-emotion-transformation focused experiential treatment model. She is senior editor, with Daniel Siegel and Marion Solomon, of The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice (Norton, 2009), part of Norton’s Interpersonal Neurobiology series, and co-author, with Natasha Prenn, of Essentials of AEDP Supervision (APA, 2016). APA has issued 3 DVDs of her APA work. [Learn more and purchase here.]
She has contributed chapters to, among others, Clinical pearls of wisdom: 21 leading therapists offer their key insights, edited by M. Kerman (Norton, 2009); Complex traumatic stress disorders: An evidence-based clinician's guide, edited by C. Courtois & J. D. Ford (Guilford, 2009); Healing trauma: Attachment, mind, body and brain, edited by Marion Solomon and Daniel Siegel (Norton, 2003); and to The comprehensive handbook of psychotherapy, Volume 1: Psychodynamic and object relations therapies, edited by J. J. Magnavita (Wiley, 2002).
Dr. Diana Fosha graduated magna cum laude with a BA in psychology from Barnard College and received her PhD in clinical psychology from the City university of New York (CUNY). For the last 20 years, she has been active in promoting a scientific basis for a healing oriented attachment, emotion and transformation focused therapy.
Known for her powerful, precise yet simultaneously poetic and evocative affective writing 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.
Watch Diana's Trusting Vitality video here.
Location
QEII Conference Centre
Broad Sanctuary, Westminster – SW1P 3EE
London (Greater London)
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Date/Time
05/14/20178:30 am - 10:00 am