About this Talk:

Jacquie’s presentation will center on her observations and experiences regarding the unique treatment needs and therapeutic goals of individuals suffering from transgenerational trauma. Drawing from her work with her client in the paper as well as  other clinical examples beyond the paper, she will illuminate key clinical considerations valuable to this work and discuss the how such knowledge and awareness can inform our AEDP practice. 

Within the context of transgenerational trauma, Jacquie’s client demonstrates the emergence of liberation affects, newly articulated within AEDP’s repertoire of transformational affects. She emphasizes the importance of sensitivity to the lingering impact of generational, cultural, political, and historical trauma that may influence a client outside of conscious awareness, as well as the delicate task of approaching topics that remain taboo or even threatening to voice.

The talk will also explore the features that make AEDP particularly well suited to cross-cultural work, especially its attunement to moment-to-moment emotional experience and somatic phenomenology. Jacquie highlights the importance of understanding cultural factors when working with emotions such as anger, particularly where cultural norms and defensive adaptations may need discernment.

Jacquie intends for this talk to be both interactive and personal. She warmly invites participants to share their own experiences, as she will share hers. 

Transformance: The AEDP Journal is the official journal of the AEDP Institute. Transformance has been published yearly since it’s inaugral  September 2010 and has published yearly since. It represented a quantum leap into a new era for a groundbreaking model of therapy that was introduced only 10 years earlier by Diana Fosha’s influential book, The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change. The publication also provided a much needed platform for disseminating the ever evolving advances, applications, and inspirations for the rapidly growing and highly productive AEDP community.   A quick scan of the titles will reveal the vast array of topics and the tremendous fount of clinical material, in the form of session transcripts, demonstrating the application of AEDP to clinical issues such as, eating disorders, sexual abuse, work with couples, addiction, racial trauma; methodological refinements such as, adjustments to attachment style, cultivating therapeutic presence; and innovation benefitting the general field of psychotherapy such as, harnessing termination as component of the healing process and the creation of an empirically validated model of short-term AEDP.  Additionally, Transformance has featured articles on cutting edge applications of neuroscience research as well as commentary on books and movies.