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• Archive: Topic Areas:WorkshopCategory:Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2008Faculty:Bessel van der Kolk, MDDuration:1:38:39Format:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :Apr 25, 2008 Description Description: The majority of people who seek psychiatric care have histories of trauma, chaos or neglect.
• Advances in the neurosciences, attachment research and in information processing show how brain function is shaped by experience, and that life itself can continually transform perception and biology.
• Overwhelming experiences alter the capacity for selfregulation and memory processing due to changes in sub-cortical, i.e., “unconscious” levels of the brain.
• The memory imprints of the trauma(s) are held in bodily states and physical action patterns, which causes the entire human organism to automatically react to current experiences as a replay of the past.
• This workshop includes: Affective neuroscience for thoughtful clinicians; Introduction to the neurobiology of attachment, the nature of the threat response, attention, exploration and concentration, as well as lessons from neuro-managing and psychophysiology.