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“We have to do our own attachment work. And in the same way that the patient has the healing from the get-go, so do we.”
Therapists need to do their own attachment work to effectively help clients.
“we have like really well-developed communities, not just in North America, but in South America, in Brazil, in Colombia, in Europe, in France, in Scandinavia, in Italy, in South Africa, in the Middle East, in China, in Japan, in Korea.”
AEDP has grown into worldwide practitioner communities across many continents.
“the '90s were the decade of the brain.”
The 1990s are described as the era when neuroscience surged.
“healing from the get-go, the potential to respond to facilitating conditions or to welcoming conditions with healing, with a capacity to heal, with a motivation to change, it's there from the beginning.”
She asserts that the capacity to heal exists from the start of therapy.
“Well, yes, fireflies are prettier than potatoes as a rule, But what a moving thing, right?”
Diana prefers the firefly metaphor over the potato one.
“trauma or psychopathology is that which results from the individual's unwilled and unwanted aloneness in the face of overwhelming emotion.”
She defines trauma as arising from unwanted, involuntary aloneness during intense emotion.
“You know, empathy needs to be taken in to be effective, to be potent.”
Empathy only works if the client actually feels it.
“If we let ourselves feel grief, the wave of grief naturally takes you to its completion.”
Allowing grief to be felt lets it resolve on its own.
“Bruce Ecker's memory reconsolidation, I mean, that's a mechanism that he describes.”
Bruce Ecker's model uses memory reconsolidation to transform trauma.
“I love the word accompanying too.”
Sue expresses enthusiasm for the term “accompanying” in therapy.
“She sort of— we were working with images and she's talking about this dark cave where she goes and she says, Diana, I want to show it to you. Come.”
Therapist recounts a client guiding her into a symbolic dark cave during therapy.
“it does make one as a therapist, it makes us as therapists more vulnerable.”
AEDP work is a high‑wire act that makes therapists more vulnerable.
“this work has found resonance with therapists in so many different cultures of the world, you know, that it really just demonstrates that our common humanity.”
AEDP has been embraced worldwide, showing a shared human connection.
“the therapist is not sitting there telling the patient what's what, but there's a process of joint and co-created discovery.”
AEDP uses a non‑authoritarian, co‑created therapeutic approach.
“It's built in and it's non-authoritarian. It really is, I want to know You. And it's by knowing you that we're going to discover, you know, what we can do together.”
She describes the model as inherently non-authoritarian and emphasizes knowing the client.
“we're doing a hybrid conference that's going to be an in-person conference in New York City from April 4th to April 6th, 2025, but it's also going to be online.”
Announces a hybrid conference in NYC in April 2025 with an online option.
“go to the show notes page. You're going to find that at therapistuncensored.com. And the easiest thing to do is just— there's a little search button and you can just put in AEDP or Diana Fosha or really anything that you're interested in, and it'll pull up the podcast related to that.”
Advises listeners to use the show notes search to find AEDP material.
“you and I both are going to be presenting at the Psychotherapy Networker Conference in March.”
Announces both hosts will present at the Psychotherapy Networker Conference in March.
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