Newsletter Volume 14 Number 2, 2024 In the latest newsletter:Letter From The PresidentRecognizing and Overcoming Obstacles in Trauma Treatment By: Irene MichalopoulosHidden Trauma: How does it impact the Highly Sensitive Child? By: Renée Potgieter MarksThe Treacherous Rabbit Hole: Online Dangers of Dissociation and Plurality of Dissociation and Plurality By: Elizabeth...
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 February 14th, 7:00 pm (Berlin)
Free Webinar February 14th at 7pm CET Berline time Giving voice to neglect: from childhood through adulthood. Neglect is the most silent form of child abuse, and yet it can have many consequences. Memories of neglect have a different quality than memories of verbal, physical or sexual abuse: most patients...
Congress Recordings from Katowice Now Available as VOD!
On-Demand Access to the 9th International ESTD Congress Content – Subscribe Now! We’re excited to share that the 9th International ESTD Congress in Katowice was a resounding success! Thanks to our exceptional speakers and engaging workshops and presentations, it was an event to remember.If you missed any sessions or would...
SCID-D TRAINING COURSE, BOLOGNA, ITALY, FEBRUARY 7-8-9, 2025
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 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...