Diana Foșha is a Romanian-American psychologist, known for developing accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP),[1] and for her work on the psychotherapy of adults suffering the effects of childhood attachment trauma and abuse.
[2][3][4][5] Fosha was born in Bucharest, but her family emigrated to the United States when she was 12 years old, settling in New York City.
[6] In her early career Fosha held teaching positions at the City College of New York and Adelphi University.
[9][10] Her core premise is that the desire to heal and grow is a wired-in capacity, which she calls the transformance drive.
[13] Healing is accelerated through a tracking of emerging affect, so the patient can have a complete emotional experience, and then reflect upon the experience of healing change itself, with the help of the therapist.