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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Expanded Contents
Foreword by Diana Fosha
Foreword by Daniel A. Hughes
Part 1: The Arc of Resilience
Introduction
a. Resilience Is Not Invulnerability
b. Resilience and AEDP
c. Restoring Resilience = Change
d. The Intended Audience for This Book
e. A Note on Confidentiality
f. The Arc of Restoring Resilience and the Frame of the Book
Chapter 1: Reframing Resilience: Toward a Clinical Understanding
a. How Therapists Define Resilience
b. Shifting Focus From Pathology to Healing
c. The Essence of Resilience
d. Reflections in the Research Literature
e. Developing a Common Language: AEDP and the Terminology of Resilience
f. The Map of Resilience
g. Defining Resilience in a Clinical Context
h. Making Room for the Extraordinary and the Natural
Part 2: Resilience as Potential
Chapter 2: Working With Resilience: Essential Elements and Theoretical Foundations
a. Secure Attachments and the Foundations of Resilience
b. The Role of Emotion and Expression in Resilience Processes
c. The Resilient Individual as an Affective Communication System
d. Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
Chapter 3: The Self-in-Transition and the Transformational Other
a. Self-at-Worst and Self-at-Best: Resilience as Potential
b. The Self-in-Transition: The Real Work of Therapy
c. The Tranformational Other: The Therapist’s Potential
d. Metatherapeutic Processing: Reflecting on Micro and Macro Moments of Change
Part 3: Resilience as Promise
Chapter 4: Connection and Coordination in Softening Defenses and Quieting Anxiety
a. “Using” The Other: Affective Neuroscience and The Polyvagal Theory of Emotion
b. Coordination, Disruption, & Repair
c. Clinical Vignette: “The Sinkhole:” Resilience as Promise
d. Restructuring Defenses and Quieting Anxiety: Getting Out of State 1
e. Healing Shame: Undoing Aloneness and Working With Toxic Emotions
Chapter 5: Recognizing, Facilitating, and Responding to Occasions of Change
a. The Development of the Resilient Self: What Interpersonal Neurobiology and Affective Neuroscience Have to Say
b. Change: Inviting It, Marking It, and Expanding It
c. Clinical Vignette: “Connect With Me”: Resilience as Promise
Part 4: Resilience as Transformance/Flourishing
Chapter 6: Freedom Is Frightening: Trembling and Savoring in the Wake of Transformation
a. Freedom Is Frightening
b. The Importance of Open Space
c. Identification and Elaboration: Recognition and Intersubjectivity in Restoring Resilience
d. The Triumph of Arriving: The Full Flowering of Transformance
e. Savoring, Gratitude, and The Practice of Presence
f. Listening to and Nurturing Desire: The Wellspring of Flow, Creativity, and a Meaningful Life
Chapter 7: Fully Human, Fully Alive: Resilience as Transformance and Flourishing
a. Positive Emotion and Flourishing: Good Feelings in the Course of Growth and Transformation
b. Mature Resilience and Emotional Complexity
c. Clinical Vignette: “I Am a Complicated Man”: Resilience as Transformance and Flourishing
d. The Hero’s Journey From Mourning to Dancing
e. Post Traumatic Growth
f. On Flourishing, Transformance, and Being Complex
g. Pulling It Together: The Case for a Truly Integrative Approach to Restoring Resilience
h. The Transformational Spiral From Languishing to Transformance: The Optimal Expression of Resilience
Chapter 8: The Resilient Clinician: How Transformative Therapy Transforms the Therapist
a. Personal Reflections
b. Missing the Forest for the Trees: The Story of Siobhan
c. How Resilience-Oriented Therapy Nurtures Therapists
d. Trusting the Transformational Process
References
Acknowledgments
Index
Copyright
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