FEATURING Conference Director: Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD
With: Margaret E. Blaustein, PhD, Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, Rick Doblin, PhD, Sherain Harricharan, PhD, Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, Gabor Maté, MD, Michael Mithoefer, MD, Pat Ogden, PhD, Stephen W. Porges, PhD, Matthew Sanford, Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, Elizabeth Warner, PsyD, Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, MD, MDiv, and many more!
Psychological Trauma - Neuroscience, Identity and Self
The study of trauma has probably been the single most fertile area in
helping to develop a deeper understanding of the relationship among
the emotional, cognitive, social and biological forces that shape
human development. Starting with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in
adults and expanding into early attachment and overwhelming attachment
and social experiences in childhood (“Developmental Trauma”), this
endeavor has elucidated how certain experiences can “set” psychological
expectations and biological selectivity.
When addressing the problems of traumatized people who, in a myriad of
ways, continue to react to current experience as a replay of the past, there is
a need for therapeutic methods that do not depend exclusively on drugs or
cognition. We have learned that most experience is automatically processed
on a subcortical level of the brain; i.e., by “unconscious” interpretations that
take place outside of conscious awareness. Insight and understanding have
only a limited influence on the operation of these subcortical processes, but
synchrony, movement and reparative experiences do.
For full brochure and to register online:
www.pesi.com/traumaconference
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