This book updates clinical guidance and theory for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), an approach that gives patients corrective emotional and relational experiences which mobilize changes in the brain.  

Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: AEDP After Twenty YearsDiana FoshaPart I. Healing From the Get-go Chapter 1. How AEDP Works Chapter 2. The First Session in AEDP: Harnessing Transformance and Co-creating a Secure AttachmentPart II. Context and Scaffolding Chapter 3. Historical Context: AEDP's Place in the World of Psychotherapy Chapter 4. What Just Happened? And What is Happening Now? The Art and Science of Moment-to-Moment Tracking in AEDP Chapter 5. A Shift in Focus: Making Use of Therapist Experience in AEDP Chapter 6. Using AEDP's Representational Schemas to Scaffold the Therapist's Attunement and EngagementPart III. How to Work with Core Affective Experience: Attachment, Emotion, Self Chapter 7. Neuroplasticity in Action: Rewiring Internal Working Models of Attachment Chapter 8. Portrayals in AEDP: Processing Core Affective Experience and Bringing it to Completion Chapter 9. Agency, Will, and Desire as Core Affective Experience: Undoing Disempowerment to Foster the Emergence of the Agentic SelfPart IV. How to Work with Maladaptive Affective Experience and Complex Trauma Chapter 10. Fierce Love: Championing the Core Self to Transform Trauma and Pathogenic States Chapter 11. Finding Healing in the Broken Places: Intra-Relational AEDP Work With Traumatic Aloneness Chapter 12. Relational Prisms: Navigating Experiential Attachment Work with Dissociation and Multiplicity in AEDPPart V. Integration, Flourishing, Core State, and the Core Self Chapter 13. What Went Right? What Happens in the Brain During AEDP's Metatherapeutic Processing Chapter 14. "We are organized to be better than fine": Building the Transformational Theory of AEDP 2.0 Chapter 15. Future Directions for AEDP Appendix. The Phenomenology of the Four-State Transformational Process in AEDP Index About the Editor