Table 3.

Phases and steps of the EDER methodology.

Phases	Steps for each Phase
(1) Emotion elicitation	(a) Ask for a specific example
	(b) Invite feelings.
	(c) If necessary, regulate anxiety and then invite feelings again.
	(d) Identify and help the patient let go of defenses that block the emergence of feeling.
(2) Regulatory mechanism enhancement (Awareness, attention and causality)	(a) Enhance awareness of the stimulus (b) Enhance observing capacity.
	(c) Pay attention to feeling.
	(d) Differentiate feeling from anxiety and defenses.
	(e) Understand causality (feelings→anxiety→defenses→symptoms).
(3) Dysregulatory mechanisms reduction or blocking (DAS)	(a) Understand causality of anxiety (feelings emerge→anxiety rises→DAS)
	(b) Reduce anxiety (restructure the pathway of anxiety discharge)
	(c) Understand causality of dysregulated affects (feelings→anxiety rises→defenses→defensive affects→DAS)
	(d) Block and restructure defenses which cause defensive affects
(4) Full emotional experience and elaboration	(a) Label the true feeling (subjective level).
	(b) Experience the feeling physically in the body.
	(c) Experience the impulse physically in the body.
	(d) Express the feeling (portray the associated impulse-action).