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29th Annual International Trauma Conference - Bessel van der Kolk

Seaport World Trade Center (Boston MA)

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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Boston, MA 02210
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