Dear colleagues, greetings!
I invite you to take part in the mini- course:
The Use of Imagery in the Treatment of Complex Trauma-related Dissociation: Transforming patients’ pathogenic images and constructing healing images
By Onno van der Hart
Dates and time :
December 11,Monday 17.00-18.45
December 16, Saturday 11.00-12.45
December 18 Monday 17.00-18.45 our time
Registration fee 4000 UAH or 100 EUR
The language: English with consecutive translation to Ukrainian
The Interpreter Oksana Lyzak
Recording – for participants, accesswill be opened for two months with the subsequent right to view againe on request. Videos of clinical cases that will be demonstrated by the presenter will not be included in the recording for confidentiality reasons.
Certificates : At the end of the seminar, a personal certificate in English is issued indicating the number of academic hours (6 a.h)
Registration link :
Contacts : : +380679239811 (Viber, WhatsApp, Telegram)
karine.kocharyan@epc-tree-of-knowlege.com.ua
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Karine Kocharyan
The short Abstract
A survivor with a complex trauma-related dissociative disorder once remarked that therapists should realize that dissociative people have a great capacity for imagination, which often remains greatly under-utilized. However, imagination may also act as a liability, playing a major role in the maintance of trauma-related dissociation of the personality, which consists of dissociative parts mainly functioning in daily life (apparently normal parts of the personality; ANPs) and parts stuck in trauma-time (emotional parts; EPs). For instance, EPs may intensely and involuntarily imagine, even hallucinate, that the traumas of the past occur again. Such experiences can be regarded as malignant hypnotic trance states, in which the involved part of the personality is caught, having no possibility to reflect on the experience. Indeed, hypnotic states are characterized by a narrowed field of consciousness, absorption, and (often but not always) suggestibility. This webinar is about the application of two types of hypnotic-like guided imagery work in which clients are assisted in voluntary and deliberately realize reaching positive treatment goals:
(1) Resolving specific problems or symptoms with concrete or metaphoric images. Regarding metaphoric approaches, language is full of metaphors, with so-called metaphoric kernel statements referring to something essential; e.g., the way a patient may experience a particular problem. Whether concrete or metaphoric, these pathogenic kernel statements will be taken as point of departure for guided imagery.
(2) systemic work for fostering safe communications and increased collaboration among dissociative parts, in particular with regard to the construction and utilization of protective imagery, imaginary inner meeting places, safe or calm places, confrontation with and titration of traumatic memories, fusion rituals among dissociative parts.
The webinar consists of theoretical notions, teaching tales, video, and practical guidelines.
References
Boon, S., Steele, K., & Van der Hart, O. (2011). Coping with trauma-related dissociation: Skills training for patients and therapists. New York/London: Norton.
Steele, K., Boon, S., & Van der Hart, O. (2017). Treating trauma-related dissociation: A practical, integrative approach. New York/London: Norton.
Van der Hart, O. (2012). The use of imagery in phase 1 treatment of clients with complex dissociative disorders. European Journal of Psychotraumatology 3: 8458 – http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v3i0.8458 Also at: www.onnovdhart.nl, which also includes several articles on metaphoric approaches.
Van der Hart, O., Nijenhuis, E.R.S., & Steele, K. (2006). The haunted self: Structural dissociation and the treatment of chronic traumatization. New York/London: W.W. Norton & Co.
This webinar is intended for psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists who is working with mental trauma of all therapeutic modes and directions.
Onno van der Hart
Onno van der Hart, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychopathology of Chronic Traumatization at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, a psychologist, and until 2017 a psychotherapist in private practice, Amstelveen, the Netherlands. He is a Janet scholar and acted as a consultant and supervisor in the field of trauma-related dissociation. He is a past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) and the recipient of a number of awards for his clinical and published works.
