Clinical Workshop:
Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociation

Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and professor Jean M. Goodwin leads this workshop for mental health professionals on the ways dissociation functions as a protective—and problematic—mechanism for dealing with overwhelming trauma.

Friday, September 14
9 am-12 noon | 3 CE hours
$60 ($50 Jung Center members)

Learn how to diagnose and treat dissociative syndromes in this workshop for mental health professionals. The theory of traumatic dissociation posits that some type of dissociation will emerge in any situation of overwhelming traumatic experience. When dissociation persists beyond its protective function and becomes a symptom, it can become an aspect of post-traumatic stress disorder, or borderline syndromes, or it can present as a full-blown dissociative disorder.

Dissociative problems are complicated routinely both by environmental stressors and by other psychiatric co-morbidities. These must be addressed before the traumatic antecedents can be processed.

Principles of treatment include a stage-based approach, mapping, deployment of hypnosis-related interventions, a focus on the body and self-care, and use of a multi-disciplinary team.

Participants will be sent a book chapter prior to the workshop. We will cover the essentials of diagnosis and treatment planning in a case-based format. Participants are encouraged to bring their clinical problems.

Jean M. Goodwin is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Galveston, Texas. She is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical Branch and is a Training and Supervising analyst on the faculty of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston; she is also a founding member of the Houston-Galveston Trauma Institute. She has written over 90 articles and chapters, and her books include: Sexual Abuse: Incest Victims and Their Families; Rediscovering Childhood Trauma: A Historical Casebook; and (with R. Attias) Splintered Reflections: Images of the Body in Trauma.

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Clinical Workshop: Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociation

Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and professor Jean M. Goodwin leads this workshop for mental health professionals on the ways dissociation functions as a protective—and problematic—mechanism for dealing with overwhelming trauma.

Clinical Workshop:
Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociation