Upcoming Workshop.

Healing From Trauma: The Link Between Physiology and Psychodynamics

This one-day presentation will address the interface between psychodynamics, physiological response, and psychotherapy, the treatment of trauma and related syndromes. The capacity for attachment and relationship affects the patient’s ability to tolerate new and different sensations and emotions in the body. This ties directly to experiences mediated by the limbic brain, and thus the connection to physiological responses. These phenomena are important not only in treatment of trauma but also of depression, anxiety and chronic pain.

We will discuss what constitutes integrative medicine, and how it relates to trauma and treatment. Many of the principles of mind-body medicine relate to core concepts in psychotherapy, and this connection will be explored in more detail. Psychoneuroimmunology provides some of the physiological linkages to help understand how emotion gets transduced into physiological response. Dr. Weisberg will also clarify how these principles can inform the effective treatment of trauma and related conditions.

• Participants will be able to describe what Psychoneuroimmunology is and why it is important in understanding mind-body medicine, trauma syndromes, and psychotherapy.

• Participants will describe what constitutes integrative treatment.

• Participants will describe the relationship between psychodynamics, physiological response and self-healing resources.

• Participants will describe at least 2 ways that an understanding of these principles can inform the treatment of trauma.