How to Identify and Treat Dissociation (Even When It’s Subtle)
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with Peter Levine, PhD;
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with Peter Levine, PhD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD; Stephen Porges, PhD; Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Thema Bryant-Davis, PhD; Kathy Steele, MN, CS; Janina Fisher, PhD; Bethany Brand, PhD; Pat Ogden, PhD; Ruth Buczynski, PhD
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Fantastic. Very eye opening and clear. This also plugs right into my 2012 research “Lives unseen: unacknowledged trauma of non-disordered, competent Adult Children Of Parents with a Severe Mental Illness”. (Masters Research thesis, Department of Social Work, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne) and some of the short articles I’m invited to write for an e-publication aimed at psychiatrists and mental health practitioners which I then place on medium dot com for free for the general public. Thank you!
HMMN… as a retired therapist now age 80, I no longer practice. I find myself looking back at some of the techniques I was trained to use back when, and how they provided ways to work with clients that clearly now are being explained by the concepts your programs present.
We did some things well!
We may not have know why they worked in the same way your presenters do. But it seems that there are now intellectual structures to support and explain what effectivness we were able to achieve. Well I should really say “I ” instead of “we”, here.
I was relatively effective with low income, multi-problem clients, I especially loved working with court assigned families who never would have made it into conventional mental agencies. In one of these jobs I saved a juvenile court system between $250,000 and half a million $ in institutional costs in just one calendar year.
I myself cleared $3,000. that year, and then asked for a living wage for the next year. However, the county commissioners did not want to increase my pay to meet the level of their backhoe driver.
I had a child to support, so I had to move on, which I did with great regret.
Now tho retired, I do wish that I could afford to buy your programs myself, but I cannot.
I have tried to send my community/religious organization your way in the past,(but… without success,) when they were searching for a process to deal with “sexual misconduct” within their religious community.
I did also try to contact you directly to see if there were any no-cost options for that kind of use of your materials, but there was no response from your organization.
Today was the first time in a long time that I saw a notice of a presentation I could access without cost. (I may just have given up exploring your emails) I saw it, literally just 5 minutes before it began! I am glad I did.
Take care,
Thank you so much for making this available for free at different times of the day. I’m in Australia and often miss out on these webinars and seminars. I enjoy the different input from the different therapists. It is all very useful information.
It would be helpful to have the closed captions available, as sometimes it’s difficult to hear.
I’ll be using the ideas to ask more pertinent questions. Also, to slow down and breath myself. I teach all my clients to breath and to practice it at home, but I will be using it more in my practice room.
I really appreciated the explanation of dissociation of hiding from the self, erasing the self, neglecting and dishonouring the self. It helps to understand more about people in domestic violence relationships and working in jobs where they are exploited and retraumatised.
I am so delighted that you are offering this course again. Hearing the different ways that each of the presentors describes and deals with the symptoms brings an integrated picture and ways of working with different patients. I wish I new all this 30 years ago, I probably would not have done some mistakes which probably harmed clients. And Ruth, who coordinates the session and sums up each section, does an excelent job to make it so inciteful and easy to take in. Thank you!
The examples of specific behaviors to help identify clients with disassociative disorder and suggestions for responding effectively were especially helpful. Thank you for sharing your expertise in this area.
Thank you for the information you provide. I am a follower of your trama series and would like to know how integration of dissociated/fragmented parts is achieved. Thank you for any information.