Psychotherapy has primarily focused on ameliorating symptoms and psychopathology. This is in contrast to positive psychology, which has focused on bringing about what Keyes (2002) has called "flourishing." Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP) seeks to bridge the two traditions by both relieving suffering through processing painful negative emotions to completion and then going on to foster flourishing, in session and beyond, through a technique called metatherapeutic processing. After a brief summary of the AEDP approach, the aim of this article is to elaborate specifically on metatherapeutic processing, where a focus on savoring and exploring the positive affects that accompany the change process itself can set into motion an upward spiral of positive affect that broadens and builds the treatment's effectiveness. We provide a how-to primer on metatherapeutic processing as well as annotated transcript material from three cases to illustrate the application of the technique. We describe how metatherapeutic processing can organically foster, from the bottom-up, positive feeling states labeled transformational affects, such as gratitude, love, hope, curiosity, and zest, freeing up these vital energies that were latent within the client. We go on to propose that although metatherapeutic processing was conceived of within the framework of AEDP, it is a technique that can be integrated into a wide variety of psychotherapies, to activate flourishing in session and beyond. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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元治疗过程支持心理疗法的兴起。

心理治疗主要集中于改善症状和心理病理学。这与积极心理学相反，积极心理学专注于实现凯斯（Keyes，2002）所说的“蓬勃发展”。加速的体验式动态心理治疗（AEDP）试图通过处理痛苦的负面情绪来缓解痛苦，直至完成，然后通过称为元治疗的技术促进发展，从而在这两个传统之间架起桥梁。在对AEDP方法进行简要总结之后，本文的目的是专门阐述元治疗过程，在该过程中，专注于品尝和探索伴随变更过程本身带来的积极影响，可以推动积极影响的向上螺旋上升，从而扩大并建立治疗效果。我们提供了有关三种治疗方法的入门指南以及带注释的笔录材料（来自三种情况），以说明该技术的应用。我们描述了元治疗方法如何从下至上有机地培养积极情绪状态，这些状态被标记为变换性情感，例如感恩，爱，希望，好奇心和热情，从而释放了潜在客户体内的这些重要能量。我们继续提出，尽管在AEDP的框架内设想了元治疗过程，但这项技术可以集成到多种心理疗法中，以激活会话期间及以后的繁荣。（PsycINFO数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。