New developments in the field of treatment of traumatized people

This lecture will review our knowledge about how trauma changes the way mind and brain process information and discuss what this means for treatment. We will show how trauma shuts down the verbal part of the brain, stores undigested fragments of the past and affects somatic experience. Unable to focus on the present, traumatized people keep replaying the past over and over again until they can process and integrate the traumatic experience(s), thereby regaining the capacity to be fully engaged in the present.

Conference

English

Bessel A. van der Kolk

van der Kolk, B. A. (2010, July). New developments in the field of treatment of traumatized people. Keynote presented at the 1st EMDR Asia Conference, Bali, Indonesia