What happens when a closed and distant patient slowly begins to open up? Roni Ailon Hirsch opens the book with the memory of such a moment — a therapist who did not analyze or interpret, but simply was there: present, warm and genuine. From this moment the book was born.
“Hold Yourself Together” is a comprehensive guide to the AEDP method — Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy — a therapeutic approach based on the healing power of emotional experience and secure attachment. Instead of observing pain from the outside, AEDP invites the patient and therapist to meet within the experience itself, and discover that even the most difficult emotions carry within them a path to healing, growth and renewed vitality.
Throughout the book, the entire path is laid out: from the foundations of the method and the triangle of experience, through practical tools and skills for moment-by-moment work, to clinical applications for working with trauma, shame, loss and anxiety. The book also deals with the figure of the therapist, the combination of AEDP with other approaches and its research basis, and reaches into special applications — couple and family therapy, group therapy, with children and adolescents, and in complex trauma.
This is a book for therapists, and for anyone who seeks to understand how true human connection — the connection beyond fear — can be medicine itself.
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