Fight and Flight
Workshop 1
This seminar introduces, through clinical cases, the dilemmas of how to conceptualise stresses and traumas and their consequences. PTSD and its limitations are discussed. Survival strategies fight and flight are introduced.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent
Categories: Wholist Perspective Series of Workshops
Definition of Survival Strategies; Their Place in Stress and Trauma
Workshop 2
Survival strategies and their place in conceptualising trauma and its opposite, fulfilment, are introduced.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent
Categories: Wholist Perspective Series of Workshops
Details of Survival Strategies
Workshop 3
Survival strategies are examined in more detail. Refer to the Survival Strategies Table from now on.
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Categories: Wholist Perspective Series of Workshops
Application of Survival Strategies to Diagnosis & Treatment
Workshop 4
This seminar indicates the worth of survival strategies in diagnosing post-traumatic symptoms. It discusses common ingredients of trauma therapies.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent
Categories: Wholist Perspective Series of Workshops
The Life – Trauma Dialectic; From Survival to Fulfilment
Workshop 5
Life is a tapestry of many threads. The depth axis signals the way stations from instincts to existential meaning and purpose. Survival strategies are the threads that weave different pictures. Trauma tears the tapestry.
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Categories: Wholist Perspective Series of Workshops
Biological, Psychological and Social Aspects of Survival Strategies
Workshop 6
Survival strategies have biological, psychological, and social adaptive and maladaptive components. They express the greatest human joys and pains.
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Categories: Wholist Perspective Series of Workshops
Application of Survival Strategies to Definitions and Categorizations of Traumatic Stress and Fulfilment Phenomena
Workshop 7
Survival strategies help to categorise and articulate different pleasures, satisfactions, and their opposites.
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Categories: Wholist Perspective Series of Workshops
Application of Survival Strategies to Conceptualizing and Categorizing Anger and Guilt, Self-Esteem and Shame, Right and Wrong, Spirituality, and Sacred
Workshop 8
Survival strategies help to categorise and articulate satisfactions and their opposites on moral, spiritual, and existential levels.
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Categories: Wholist Perspective Series of Workshops
Right and Left Brain Functioning
Workshop 9
This seminar distinguishes right and left hemisphere brain functions. How this applies to traumatology.
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Categories: Wholist Perspective Series of Workshops
The Wholist Perspective; a Clinical Example (FILM)
Workshop 10
Summary of the wholist perspective. Its illustration with a film.
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Publication Author: Paul Valent
Categories: Wholist Perspective Series of Workshops