ESTD

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...

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...

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Many of you were keen viewers of our old FB page but we had to create a new one. Since Facebook implementated its new policy, all editors had to be re-assigned their privileges. Unfortunately, we could not retrieve admin details and could not post any new content since then. The...