4-Day: 29th Annual International Trauma Conference: Psychological Trauma: Neuroscience, Identity and the Transformation of the Self - Seminar

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.

An administrative fee of $75 is deducted for cancellation. Refund requests must be made in writing, fax or e-mail to events@pesi.com, and must be postmarked by May 1, 2018. No refunds will be made thereafter.

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 Schwartz, PhD
Elizabeth Warner, PsyD
Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, MD, MDiv
And many more!