SCID-D TRAINING COURSE BOLOGNA, ITALY, FEBRUARY 7-8-9, 2025 The SCID-D is an interactive, semi-structured interview for the assessment of dissociation in adults and adolescents. It is considered the gold standard for the clinical evaluation of post- traumatic dissociative symptoms and dissociative disorders. Over 30 years of worldwide research have demonstrated...
Free Webinar March 26th, 7:00 pm (Berlin)
Free Webinar March 26th at 7 pm CET Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice Judith Lewis Herman M.D. is Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry (part time) at Harvard Medical School.For thirty years, until she retired, she was Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program at The Cambridge...
Free Webinar January 6th, 7-8:30 pm (Berlin)
Free Webinar January 6th at 7 pm CET Structuring the stabilization phase for chronically traumatized and dissociative children with the Sleeping Dogs method. Abstract When children and young people are violent, avoidant, dissociate, become dysregulated and are not motivated for trauma treatment, it can be difficult to stabilize them. Many...
Annual General Meeting – Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Annual General Meeting - Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 7:30 pm Dear Colleague,This is a reminder that our Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 7:30pm (Warsaw time). Please mark your calendar and make plans to attend this important meeting. Agenda...
Free Webinar December the 10th 7-8:30 pm (Berlin)
Free Webinar December 10th, 7-8.30pm Trauma-coerced attachment: Diagnosis, challenges, and therapy considerations Abstract In this webinar, we propose a framework that defines Trauma-coerced attachment (TCA; i.e., trauma bonding) as a type of dissociative disorder. Specifically, we align TCA with “Identity Disturbance due to Prolonged and Intense Coercive Persuasion” under the...
Free Webinar November the 6th 7-8:30 pm (Berlin)
Free Webinar November 6th, 7-8.30pm Unveiling Acute Trauma-Related Dissociation in Body, Brain, and Mind: Novel Evidence from Two Script-Driven Imagery Studies Yoki L. Mertens, M.Sc., clinical researcher and practitioner, Hamburg, Germany Title: Neural Correlates of Acute Posttraumatic Dissociation – Findings from an fMRI Script-driven Imagery StudyYoki Linn Mertens¹, Antje Manthey²,...
Breanne Kearney – groundbreaking research.
Breanne Kearney, a Ph.D. student at Western University, Canada, has successfully presented her groundbreaking research at the ESTD webinar initiative for Early Career Researchers.Her work explores altered sensorimotor mechanisms at both cortical and subcortical levels in trauma-related conditions and investigates the effectiveness of Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)Watch this short video...
Free Webinar For Published Research September the 4th 7-8:30 pm (Berlin)
Free Webinar For Published Research September the 4th 7-8:30 pm (Berlin) Dissociation in complex PTSD Dr Philip HylandAbstractUnlike earlier descriptions of complex PTSD, the ICD-11 model of Complex PTSD (CPTSD) does not list dissociation as a unique symptom cluster. This talk will present the results of analysis that tested whether...
ESTD 2024 Board elections
The ESTD will hold an election for one board seat this year for the term May 2024-2027. We seek one candidate who will uphold the organization’s mission of promoting knowledge and skills about trauma and dissociation among European clinicians and the public at-large. Preferably, this would be a clinician experienced...
Free Webinar For Early Career Researchers June 3rd, 2024, 7-8.30 PM (Berlin)
Free Webinar For Early Career Researchers June 3rd, 2024, 7-8.30 PM (Berlin) The ESTD Scientific Committee is delighted to invite you to join for free this second event of a series of webinars with live presentations by early career researchers! Shae Nester, Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina...