Dr. Bessel van der Kolk will be in Athens on 14 and 15 September 2023, immediately following his presence at the Oxford University World Conference on Trauma and Mental Health.
The famous psychiatrist-neuroscientist and author Dr. Bessel van der Kolk is coming to Greece for the first time for a two-day masterclass on Intergenerational and Complex trauma. He will be in Athens on September 14 and 15, 2023, immediately following his appearance at the University of Oxford World Conference on Trauma and Mental Health.
As indicated, “the world’s foremost exponent of the understanding and treatment of trauma, founder of the Mental Trauma Center of Massachusetts, professor of Psychiatry at Harvard and author of the world best seller “The body keeps the score” (published by Keydarithms), Dr. Bessel van der Kolk is considered the “modern Sigmund Freud” of post-traumatic rehabilitation, as he is responsible for a literal modern revolution in the field of mental health. Through his many years of neuroscientific research, he has paved the way for new approaches to Intergenerational and Complex trauma, and now the possibility for healing is becoming more feasible and accessible for individuals and cultures as a whole.”
In the modern study of mental health, Trauma is treated as a Pandemic, because it is a form of psychological and neurological degenerative “contagion” that affects the entire population and affects the mental and physical health of people. Intergenerational trauma expresses the transmission of the oppressive or traumatic effects of a historical event.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk is a leading trauma expert in the world who founded and directs the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is also a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston and director of the US National Network. for the Treatment of Complex Trauma and carries out educational work traveling around the world.
His book “The body keeps the score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma” is a global success, a New York Times bestseller, and is ranked weekly in the Amazon best sellers eight years after its first release, having garnered over 66,000 reader reviews on Amazon and 135,000 reviews on Goodreads.
His work uniquely integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic, physical, and interpersonal aspects of the effects of trauma and coping.
Through his research he reveals how repetitive trauma literally rewires the brain – specifically the areas dedicated to pleasure, commitment, self-control and trust. She shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative therapies including physical therapy, psychodrama, mindfulness techniques, Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, yoga and neurofeedback. He has published over 150 scientific articles on a variety of topics including neuroimaging, self-injury, memory, neurofeedback, developmental trauma, yoga, theater and EMDR. For 34 years, through the Center for Mental Trauma Trauma Research Foundation, he has been organizing the International Trauma Conference in Boston, one of the most important international conferences on trauma and mental health.
The internationally renowned researcher is coming to Athens as a guest of the mental health institute Trauma2Therapy. The event “Intergenerational and Complex Psychological Trauma” will take place at the Pierce Theater (American College of Greece) on Thursday, September 14 and Friday, September 15, 2023.
About the Trauma2Therapy Institute
The mental health institute Trauma2Therapy was created by the trauma therapists Sofia Vasilakou and Despina Plousios and the lawyer and entrepreneur Konstantinos Plousios with the aim of offering new approaches in the field of mental health in Greece and acting as a connecting link with the international community and the new revolutionary researches around Trauma and its degenerative consequences. Its activities include the organization of seminars, trainings and talks by internationally renowned trainers, founders of well-known trauma schools and researchers around complex trauma. The first action of its founders in Greece is the invitation to Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, with whom they have been connected personally and professionally, to address the Greek public. At the same time, in August 2023, in collaboration with the Trauma Research Foundation of Dr. van der Kolk will present their virtual course Embody the Hero Within: How 5 Ancient Greek Myths Can Help Unlock Your Healing Potential.
Source: Skai
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