[Download Now] Putting the Pieces Together: Trauma and Dissociation – Janina Fisher

The therapeutic challenges of trauma treatment include problems with memory, impulsivity, shutting down or going away, and self-destructive behavior. We may not be aware of subtle dissociative processes at work in high-functioning individuals because we tend to equate dissociation only with dissociative disorders.

Join internationally renowned trauma expert Janina Fisher as she introduces you to a model of adaptive mind-body response to abuse, neglect, and attachment failure that is related to borderline and other personality disorders. The treatment paradigm integrates traditional talking therapy methods with Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, ego state therapy, andMindfulness-based techniques to create a simple but effective treatment paradigm for working with our most challenging, complex clients. The use of this new approach can engage even the most resistant clients.

• Describe the Structural Dissociation model and its implications for treatment
• Identify the somatic, cognitive, and affective markers of fragmented parts of the self
• Utilize mindfulness-based techniques to counteract dissociation-related symptoms

There is an introduction to the Structural Dissociation Model.

• Compartmentalization and the brain
• Animal defense survival responses
• Applications to trauma-related disorders

The model for treatment has implications.

• Ability to work with internal struggles and conflicts
• Making sense of paradoxical behavior/symptoms
• Capitalizing on the brain and body to decrease self-destructive behavior

There are interventions for stabilizing symptoms.

• Mindfulness-based techniques that address dissociative symptoms
• Re-organizing the relationship to dissociated parts
• Cultivating wise mind and compassionate internal relationships