NOTE: The seminar manual, CE information, and CE test are contained on disc #1 in PDF format. To access these documents, play disc #1 in your computer. For the video presentation, begin playing disc #1 in your DVD player. This multi-day conference recording package includes presentations from all 3 days of Bessel van der Kolk's 23rd Annual Trauma Conference. The study of psychological trauma has been accompanied by an explosion of knowledge about how experience shapes the central nervous system and the formation of the self. Developments in the neurosciences, developmental psychopathology, and information processing have contributed to our understanding of how brain function is shaped by experience, and the understanding that life itself can continually transform perception and biology. Within the disciplines of psychiatry and psychology, the study of trauma has probably been the single most fertile area in developing a deeper understanding of the relationships among the emotional, cognitive, social, and biological forces that shape human development. Starting with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults and expanding into early attachment and overwhelming experiences in childhood, this endeavor has elucidated how certain experiences can "set" psychological expectations and biological selectivity. We have learned that most experience is automatically processed on a subcortical level, i.e., by "unconscious" interpretations that take place outside of awareness. Insight and understanding have only a limited influence on the operation of these subcortical processes. When addressing the problems of traumatized people who, in a myriad of ways, continue to react to current experience as a replay of the past, there is a need for therapeutic methods that do not depend exclusively on understanding and cognition. OUTLINE Mindfulness, Trauma and the Brain Speaker #1: Mohammed Milad, Ph.D.
Speaker #2: Britta Holzel, Ph.D.
Speaker #3: David Vago, Ph.D.
Speaker #4: Jim Hopper, Ph.D.
Speaker #5: Sue Anderson Navalta, Ph.D.
Speaker #6: Paul Frewen, Ph.D., C. Psych.
Speaker #7: Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D. Neural Correlates of Mindfulness Practice Britta Holzel, Ph.D. The Terrorized Self: Clinical & Neurobiological Perspectives Ruth Lanius, M.D., Ph.D. Faulty Neuroception: How Trauma Distorts Perception and Displaces Spontaneous Social Behaviors with Defensive Reactions Stephen Porges, Ph.D. Panel Discussion Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D.
Britta Holzel, Ph.D.
Ruth Lanius, M.D., Ph.D.
Steven Porges, Ph.D. Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Relationships to Adult Well-being and Disease Vincent Felitti, M.D. Psychopharmacological Approaches to Complex Trauma Frank Guastella Anderson, M.D. How Our Words Guide and Reflect Our Lives James W. Pennebaker, Ph.D. Clinical Implications of Neuroscience Research for the Treatment of Traumatic Stress Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D. Panel Discussion James W. Pennebaker, Ph.D.
Pat Ogden, Ph.D.
Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D. Terror and Denial Jessica Stern ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Mohammed Milad, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Director of the Behavioral Neuroscience Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital. Positive Neuroscience Award from the Templeton Foundation and Kavli Fellow, Frontier of Science, National Academy of Sciences. Britta Holzel, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Giessen University, Germany. Yoga teacher and instructor for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). David Vago, Ph.D. Instructor of psychology in the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School. Former Senior Research Coordinator for the Mind & Life Institute. Jim Hopper, Ph.D. Independent consultant and Clinical Instructor of Psychology, Cambridge Health Alliance & Harvard Medical School. Sue Anderson Navalta, Ph.D. Director, Developmental Psychopharmacology Laboratory, McLean Hospital. Paul Frewen, Ph.D., C. Psych. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Western Ontario; Chair, Traumatic Stress Section, Canadian Psychological Association. Author of 35 papers on trauma, affect regulation, mindfulness, dissociation, and the self. Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine; Medical Director, Trauma Center at JRI; Past President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies; Director, National Complex Trauma Treatment Network (NCTSN); author, Psychological Trauma; editor, Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society. Ruth Lanius, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, Canada; co-editor (with Eric Vermetten and Clare Pain), The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic. Stephen Porges, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Brain-Body Center University of Illinois at Chicago. After July 2012, Principal Researcher for Behavioral Neuroscience at Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International in North Carolina. Past President, Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Author, The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation (Norton, 2011). Vincent Felitti, M.D. Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program Clinical Professor of Medicine, UC San Diego; Co-Principal Investigator (with Robert F. Anda), Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study; Advisor, US Secretary HHS, Healthy People 2020. Advisory Committee on Women’s Services at SAMHSA. Frank Guastella Anderson, M.D. Supervising Psychiatrist, Trauma Center at JRI. James W. Pennebaker, Ph.D. Regents Liberal Arts Centennial Professor and Department Chair, the University of Texas at Austin. Published over 250 scientific articles, five edited books, and four solo-authored books, the most recent being The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us. Jessica Stern President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff, 1994-95; member, Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. Fellow, Hoover Institution; Senior Research Fellow, Center on Terrorism at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Author, Denial: A Memoir of Terror, Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, and The Ultimate Terrorists. |
