Vishet från visamhet – en fenomenologisk studie av dyadisk affektreglering och dess implikationer för psykoterapi

Sammanfattning: Six interviews were conducted with AEDP-therapists with the purpose of examining their experiences concerning dyadic affect regulation. The transcripts were analyzed with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and two main themes and nine sub-themes emerged. The first main theme concerns the dyad as a substantial and palpable experience, how this influenced the therapeutic endeavor, and obstacles and means of how to establish the dyadic relationship. The second main theme accounts for the various methods and approaches employed by the therapists for the purpose of affect regulation within the dyad. In summary these largely concern presence and awareness, the body as a fundamental point of departure, reliability and dependability, sensitivity and synchronization, intimacy and warmth and, finally, courage and intention to be and stay emotionally close. The results are discussed in relation to modern research in different fields such as intersubjectivity, embodiment, attachment theory and more.