Open Evening with Morit Heitzler

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Trauma Therapy: current developments and approaches at Friends Meeting House, St Giles, Oxford (Wed. January 18th, 7.30pm) Trauma and Trauma Therapy With events like the recent bombings in London affecting more and more people’s lives, it becomes important that we all understand the manifestations and symptoms of post-traumatic stress. What can we each do to help family and friends and others in our community deal with and process the after-effects of trauma ? Understanding Trauma To start with, we need to understand the many faces of trauma: whilst there are many obvious and atrocious instances of trauma, the severity of the outer event is not a reliable criterion. In fact, apparently quite insignificant events can precipitate the re-activation of buried trauma. Certainly, events like an accident, the loss of a close person, a mugging or a burglary can, for some people, have lasting and debilitating effects. We then need to understand how trauma can profoundly affect body and mind, at times reaching deep into unconscious areas of the psyche. The irrational reactions and symptoms can be shocking and disturbing, to the person themselves and to their loved ones around them. In time, many people do eventually get through trauma, but many also get apparently stuck with it, incapable of living and enjoying their life, due to the crippling and pervasive effects. In such cases, we also need to be able to assess when and whether professional help is needed. Working with Trauma Trauma presents many challenges to the helping professions, and especially to counsellors and psychotherapists. Trauma therapy is one of the most rapidly developing areas of counselling and psychotherapy, and the last 15 years have seen radical changes, not to say: turn-arounds, in our assumptions and understanding of trauma, and in our approaches to treatment. What will this Open Evening give you ? Tonight Morit will introduce the latest ideas and techniques, ranging from the findings of neuroscience to theories of multiple trauma and attachment theory. She will present an integration of approaches, including EMDR and Somatic Trauma Therapy. Such an integrative, multi-modal approach is increasingly considered necessary for accessing and dealing with the many layers of the human body/mind which can be affected by trauma. She will also consider the fact that although many people experience traumatic events, not everybody develops post-traumatic stress disorder. This raises the question: what leads to chronic conditions and what protects us against them and prevents them ?	Morit Heitzler Open Evening - Overview Morit will address questions such as: What is ‘trauma’ ? • How to recognise trauma, at home and at work ? • Different kinds of trauma and their effects • Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD) • How to cope with trauma and its symptoms? • How to tell whether professional help is needed ? Traumawork • How our understanding of trauma and its treatment has changed over the last two decades • Multiple trauma and attachment theory Different approaches to treatment • EMDR • Somatic Trauma Therapy • Multi-modal treatment • Why some people do not develop PTSD
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