Working With Trauma in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

Name: Working With Trauma in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
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ISBN: 978-1-4338-3261-1

With SueAnne Piliero, PhD

ISBN: 978-1-4338-3261-1

April 2020

Item # 4310019

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Part of the Series II: Specific Treatments for Specific Populations

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Description

A traumatic experience, as perceived through the lens of accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP), is the result of being left alone with an overwhelming emotional experience. To help clients who are dealing with the effects of such trauma, AEDP emphasizes the co-construction of a therapeutic relationship that includes establishing a secure attachment bond between the therapist and client and exploration of the affective traumatic experience.

This nonpathologizing, attachment and emotion transformation-focused psychotherapy places the somatic — the bodily sense — of the emotional experience at the center of how change is fostered. Therapy involves allowing the client to safely experience and process the emotion from past trauma within a deeply caring relationship.

In this video, Dr. SueAnne Piliero demonstrates this approach with an older African-American woman who has suffered major complex traumatic experiences throughout her life.

Approach

Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP), is one of the fastest growing approaches to transforming emotional suffering. Until recently, the mental health field focused on pathology and lacked concepts to capture the motivational strivings for health.

Drawing on neuroscience and developmental research, AEDP rectifies the bias toward pathology: Building on our natural resilience, its therapeutics is based on our innate healing capacities. We are wired for healing, self-righting, and for resuming impeded growth, which is what “transformance,” AEDP’s central construct, is all about.

Transformance identifies and names the wired-in motivational drive toward healing and self-repair present in all of us, and is a crucial ally in processing trauma and healing emotional suffering.

The methodology of AEDP has patient and therapist emotionally engaged, closely following the edge of emergent transformational experience, all the while processing trauma. Both are involved in the moment-to-moment tracking of subtle and not-so-subtle fluctuations in experience, energy, and connection.

AEDP emphasizes the co-creation of safety: with accompaniment, patients can risk revisiting past trauma and suffering. Healing and neuroplasticity are set in motion through fully experiencing previously feared emotions in a secure relationship, and through gentle, yet focused, explicit attention to the experience of healing within the patient–therapist relationship.

Processing both traumatic and restorative emotional experiences to completion, the AEDP process culminates in vitality, energy, and the non-finite positive emotion-fueled spirals of resilience, well-being, and creativity that are so highly correlated with health.

Contributor bios

SueAnne Piliero, PhD, is senior faculty and a founding member of the AEDP Institute.

Dr. Piliero travels nationally and internationally to teach AEDP to a broad range of clinical audiences. She has given seminars and experiential workshops to various universities and health organizations nationwide.

Dr. Piliero is a lead trainer and a sought-after individual and small group consultant for clinicians around the world. She is known for her warm, engaging teaching style and her ability to communicate complex topics with humor and clarity. She is also known for her powerful clinical work. Her clinical videotapes demonstrate how even the most traumatized individuals can be transformed.

Dr. Piliero received her doctorate from Adelphi University, and her master’s degree in human development and psychology from Harvard. Her clinical interests and specialties are in trauma, PTSD, dissociation, and the ways in which the mind, body, and spirit are powerfully poised to transform them. She teaches, supervises and is in private practice in New York City.

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