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Bessel A. van der Kolk's 27th Annual Trauma Conference: Day 1
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Length: Full Day
Self and Identity in Traumatic Stress with Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D.
In this compelling one-hour session, world’s leading trauma researcher and author of the The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk discusses the fundamental capacities of the brain and how it learns to regulate itself, especially in trauma cases. By understanding the brain, it forces us to consider the impact of trauma on the brain, as well as our self-identity. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk will examine multiple areas in this one-hour event.
The Enduring Neurobiological Effects of Abuse and Neglect with Martin Teicher, M.D., PhD
In this session, Dr. Martin Teicher discusses his research and emphasizes how personality disorders can stem from severe childhood abuse or neglect. This session will leave you with the best understanding of how childhood maltreatment is associated with various personality disorders and what maltreatment-related alterations can be made to help and reduce distress for the effected individuals.
What the Spontaneous Activity in the Midline Regions of the Brain can Tell us about Self & Identity with Georg Northoff, M.D., PhD
In this one hour session, Dr. Georg Northoff goes into detail of how our resting state causes change to seem much harder than it is and how increased self-focus and resting state creates an abnormal balance in the brain. Dr. Georg Northoff will discuss his research and examine multiple areas of the relation between self and identity and spontaneous activity in this one-hour occurrence.
Neuroimaging the Traumatized Self with Paul Frewen, PhD, C.Psych
In this session with Dr. Paul Frewen, he discusses the neurobiological explanation of self-awareness and the states of mind of severely traumatized people. This special seminar recording represents current research findings about how people’s brains, minds and bodies are affected by traumatic experiences and illustrate the emotional states of both normal and psychopathological functioning.
Trauma and Self-Experience with Georg Northoff, M.D., PhD, Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D., and Paul Frewen, M.D., PhD
In this two hour session, Dr. Georg Northoff, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, and Dr. Paul Frewen discuss what it means to be mentally healthy. They emphasize how shame is the one thing that keeps us from knowing ourselves. In addition to this, they will discuss the complexity of language and the brain as a whole.
OBJECTIVES
Self and Identity in Traumatic Stress with Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D.
- Clarify how the brain has fundamental capacities to learn to regulate itself.
- Describe how severe childhood abuse and/or neglect influences personality disorders.
- Describe what the spontaneous activity in the midline regions of the brain can tell us about self & identity.
- Explain how to become aware of emotional states within both normal and psychopathological functioning.
- Integrate an approach to understand the self, consciousness, and what it means to be mentally healthy.
- Examine instances of distorted self-recognition in people with psychiatric disorders, like schizophrenia.
OUTLINE
Self-Identity in Traumatic Stress
- Introduction
- Exploring how people get “stuck”
- Victim identity
- War identity
- How to help people be fully alive in the present
- Neurofeedback and ERP Patterns
- Brain stem arousal systems
- Childhood interpersonal trauma
- Case Study
- Introduction
- Maltreatment and Trauma Studies Support
- Pharmalogical Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment
- First Neuroimaging Findings
- Childhood Abuse and the Regional Anatomy of the Corpus Callosum
- Deficient Hemispheric Integration
- Threat Detection, Response, and Recovery
- Childhood Abuse and the Amygdala
- Fear Circuit Regions and Pathways
- Amygdala
- Critical Developmental Threats
- Hippocampus
- Sensory Cortex
- Prefrontal Cortex
- Pathways - AF, CB, Fornix, ILF
- Reward Anticipation
- Reactive Attachment Disorder
- Circuits and Networks
- Studies
- Take Home Messages
- Introduction
- What is the brain?
- Definitions of the brain
- Domains of the brain
- Distinction between Self and Non-Self
- Self and Rest: Self-specific
- Stimuli and the Default-Mode Network
- Combining EEG and MRS on self-related judgment
- Overlap: Aversion, Trauma, Entropy and Glutamate
- Introduction
- Responses to PTSD
- Dimensions of PTSD
- Representations of the visual and the semantic
- Case study of being in or out of the present
- Introduction
- Question and Answer
- Shame
- Self
- FMRI vs EEG
- Brain Stimulation during neurofeedback
- Language
- Verbal
- Non-verbal
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Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, is a clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of post-traumatic stress. His work integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment.
Dr. van der Kolk and his various collaborators have published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, such as dissociative problems, borderline personality and self-mutilation, cognitive development, memory, and the psychobiology of trauma. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles on such diverse topics as neuroimaging, self-injury, memory, neurofeedback, Developmental Trauma, yoga, theater, and EMDR.
He is founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts and President of the Trauma Research Foundation, which promotes clinical, scientific, and educational projects.
His 2014 #1 New York Times best seller, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma, transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring – specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, somatically based therapies, EMDR, psychodrama, play, yoga, and other therapies.
Dr. van der Kolk is the past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. He regularly teaches at conferences, universities, and hospitals around the world.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk is a professor at Boston University School of Medicine, the Director of the Trauma Center, and the National Complex Trauma Network. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. van der Kolk receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Martin Teicher, MD, PhD
Martin Teicher, MD, PhD, has been director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital since 1988. He was the director of the former Developmental Psychopharmacology Laboratory (now the Laboratory of Developmental Neuropharmacology) and is currently an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Teicher is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, Current Pediatric Reviews, and Current Psychosomatic Medicine. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation and has been part of Harvard University’s Brain Development Working Group. He has served on or chaired numerous review committees for the National Institutes of Health, published more than 150 articles, and has received numerous honors.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Martin Teicher has employment relationships with Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital. He receives grants from MindLight, LLC. Martin Teicher receives grants and a consulting fee from Brain Balance Centers and Interactive Metronome. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Martin Teicher serves on the scientific advisory board for SMARTfit™ and is a board member National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and the Trauma Research Foundation. He is on the advisory board for Penn State P50 Childhood Adversity CAPSTONE Center.
Georg Northoff, MD, PhD
Georg Northoff, MD, PhD, is a Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Philosophy at the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, Canada. His neuroscientific research focuses on self and consciousness using brain imaging, and he is also one of the leading forces behind the development of neurophilosophy and its application in psychiatry and philosophy. Recent major works include a two volume book on theory of brain functioning including coding (Volume I) and consciousness (Volume II).
Paul Frewen, PhD, CPsych
Paul A. Frewen, PhD, CPsych, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Western Ontario; Chair, Traumatic Stress Section, Canadian Psychological Association. Author of 45 papers on trauma, affect regulation, mindfulness, dissociation, and the self. Co-author, Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience & Treatment.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Paul Frewen has employment relationships with London Health Sciences Centre, Lawson Health Research Institute, and the University of Western Ontario. He receives royalties as a published author. Paul Frewen receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-Financial: Paul Frewen is a member of the Traumatic Stress Section, Canadian Psychological Association.
David Emerson, E-RYT
David Emerson, Coordinator of Yoga Services Program, is an accomplished yoga instructor and founder of the Black Lotus Yoga Project, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to the teaching of yoga to individuals with PTSD. Mr. Emerson was responsible for the implementation, supervision and oversight of the yoga intervention component of the two recent pilot studies conducted by Dr. van der Kolk to assess the utility and feasibility of yoga instruction with traumatized adults with PTSD. Mr. Emerson has extensive experience in the instruction of yoga with PTSD and mental illness populations, and has developed and conducted yoga groups for several rape crisis, domestic violence, mental health and veterans administration centers and clinics throughout Greater Boston.
