Transformance Talk 2: Making Good Use of Suffering: Intra-relational Work with Pathogenic Affects

Transformance Talk based on Transformance: The AEDP Journal, Volume 6, Issue 1 by Jerry Lamagna, LCSW

The Talk: Jerry Lamagna and members of the AEDP community learn about his important article and have a chance to participate in a Q&A with members of the AEDP community.

From the Abstract to Lamagna’s Transformance Journal article, Making Good Use of Suffering: Intra-relational Work with Pathogenic Affects:

“The unbearable psychic pain of pathogenic affect presents a formidable challenge to AEDP-trained therapists. As an experiential re-iteration of abandonment in the face of overwhelming distress, it sometimes renders patients incapable of engaging interpersonally, thus limiting the effectiveness of dyadic regulation. Because of the overwhelming distress and the dysregulation that results, pathogenic affect is generally seen as a clinically undesirable state that blocks therapeutic change.  In this paper, the author suggests an intra-personal approach to working with pathogenic affect …”

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Meet the Presenter

Jerry Lamagna, LCSW

Jerry is a senior faculty member with the AEDP Institute and a psychotherapist in private practice in Manhattan and Westfield, New Jersey. With training in psychodrama, EMDR, ego state therapy, trauma treatment and IFS and over 20 years studying AEDP, his clinical work has primarily focused on the treatment of complex trauma. Along with Dr. Kari Gleiser, Jerry developed a modified version of AEDP for the treatment of dissociative disorders and has published three papers and a book chapter (AEDP 2.0) on AEDP work with trauma. In addition to writing, supervising and providing psychotherapy, Jerry has presented internationally at 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), National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the AEDP Institute.

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