- 2 and 5 June 2021
- 18.00 – 21.00 (in Kyiv)
- Online (Zoom)
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Webinar
Trauma-generated dissociation: From integrative deficit to personality integration—in introduction
Presenter: Prof. dr. Onno van der Hart
Based on extensive clinical studies and historical work, inspired particularly by Pierre Janet’s pioneering work, the theory of structural dissociation of the personality, which the presenter and his colleagues developed, is a collaborative attempt to make sense of what happens with people when they are being traumatized and remain traumatized. The theory holds that traumatic experiences are integrative failures, or rather lower-order substitute integrative actions, resulting in a division of the survivor’s personality, that is, of the dynamic biopsychosocial system as a whole that determines his or her characteristic mental and behavioral actions. This division includes two or more insufficiently integrated subsystems, called dissociative parts of the personality (also known as self-states). Some of them exert functions related to goals in daily life; others are stuck in traumatic experiences and involved defensive failures, that is, contain the survivor’s traumatic memories. The more severe the traumatization and the earlier it started, the more dissociative parts—involving more complex trauma-related dissociative disorders—can be expected to exist.
Phase-oriented treatment, the standard of care for the therapy with patients with complex dissociative disorders, consists of the following phases:
- stabilization, symptom reduction, and skills training;
- treatment of traumatic memories; and
- personality (re)integration and rehabilitation
Already indicated by Janet, phase-oriented treatment aims at systematically overcoming a large number phobias which maintain the dissociation of the personality and thus less than optimal functioning. It takes the form of a spiral, in which these different treatment phases can be alternated according to the needs of patients and the complexity of their dissociation. Treatment as a whole involves heightening the patient’s adaptivity and integrative capacity, that is, increasing mental health.
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.
The course is intended for psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists who is working with mental trauma of all therapeutic modes and directions.
Additional information
Сertificate
After completion of seminar a nominal certificate is given out in English language with pointing of amount of theoretical hours
The language:
The language: English with consecutive translation to russian
The cost of participation
The cost of participation in two parts is 55 EUR.
The recording
The recording will be given to all participants for two weeks.
Important!
For reasons of confidentiality, the recording will stop when Professor Van Der Harts hows the video of the sessions, so it is important that you personally attend the seminar.
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