This Talk: This qualitative single-case study examines how healing and transformation can begin in the first AEDP session with a Korean client. Given Korea’s structurally time-limited psychotherapy context, this research demonstrates that initial sessions can move beyond assessment to provide immediate healing experiences through corrective attachment and transformance activation.

Using hermeneutic phenomenological methods, the analysis revealed two key transformation themes: encounter (meeting the wounded self and confronting the shadow) and recollection (re-unfolding past memories through revisiting and reinterpretation). Transformation manifested through experiencing a new body and emergence of the True Self, with the therapeutic relationship facilitating these AEDP processes throughout.

The findings support AEDP’s “healing from the get-go” principle and offer a protocol for exploring successful first-session mechanisms, contributing to research on initial encounter significance in psychotherapy.

Article: https://aedpinstitute.org/journal/the-international-cultural-issue-volume-15/#Significance

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.