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Understanding the link between trauma and dissociation in patients with eating disorders. How to regain control?
🗓 Date: 27th October
⏰ Time: 7 PM CET
📍 Free Online Event
In this lecture some basic guidelines in the treatment of traumatized eating disorder patients, often showing a great comorbidity, dissociative symptoms and impulse dyscontrol, will be presented.
In the first part we focus on the topic (1) how trauma experiences, eating disorder symptoms and impulse dyscontrol problems are related to one another and (2) which factors may mediate the trauma-ED link.
In the second part the most important goal in the first phase of treatment, i.e. (3) how to regain control over impulsive and self-destructive behaviours, will be outlined. (4) Several therapeutic techniques (such as heart coherence training, self-hypnosis, guided imagination, writing assignments, EMDR) will be proposed that can help ED patients with a history of (mostly emotional) trauma to rewrite their personal trauma history and to deal more effectively with the aftermath of trauma and the maladaptive (eating) behaviours that disrupt their lifes.
Presenter
Dr. Johan Vanderlinden is a psychologist/systemic psychotherapist and former coordinator of the Eating Disorders Unit of the Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum KULeuven Campus Kortenberg (Belgium) for 40 years. He is research fellow in the department of psychodiagnosis and psychopathology of the faculty of psychology and educational sciences of the KUL (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) and guest lecturer at the University of Geneva (Switserland). He has done extensive research in the field of eating disorders and psychotraumatology and he published more then 15 books and 200 peer reviewed papers. He recently (2023) received the Life Time Achievement Award for his scientific contribution to the field of trauma and dissociation of the European Society of Trauma and Dissociation.
The webinar is intended only for professionally occupied with diagnosis, treatment, research or teaching in the field of trauma, dissociation and disorders related to chronic traumatization.