Preverbal traumas present unique challenges in treatment given they occur before the development of speech and cognitive meaning-making relative to such traumas. Often the client is consciously unaware of their trauma, viewing somatic symptoms as medical issues and emotions as generalized anxiety or depression rather than being rooted in early trauma.
Drawing from trauma theory, attachment theories, neuroscience, transactional analysis, psychoanalysis and body analysis, Novak will weave theory and clinical vignettes together to provide an overview of both theory and clinical practice. The seminar will help therapists recognize the clues that may indicate early trauma, how to explore this possibility with clients, and how to then address preverbal trauma in treatment.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Describe the unique issues of preverbal trauma and how these often manifest in treatment.
- Understand how to recognize and make us of subtle transference and countertransference dynamics that are often felt but unverbalized in sessions
- Distinguish preverbal trauma treatment approaches from those used in other types of trauma work.
- Become more familiar with ways to address somatic issues and link them to preverbal trauma.
- Be able to define implicit relational knowing and understand the importance of this form of procedural knowledge in preverbal trauma work.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- This workshop is suited of therapists of all skill levels as the presentation will take into account the wide range of knowledge and experience of the participants.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- The workshop will help therapists feel more confident in recognizing and then speaking with clients about possible preverbal trauma. This will include how to introduce and invite the client into deeper work relative to their early developmental history. Participants can then integrate the theoretical and clinical aspects of the workshop into their work with these clients.
Course Content
Presenter
Edward T. Novak is a certified psychoanalyst in private practice in the United States, having trained in contemporary relational psychoanalysis at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City. He has over 30 years of clinical experience working with groups, couples, and individuals. He has a special interest in working with trauma and his treatment approach integrates attachment research, body psychotherapy, cognitive science, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and transactional analysis.
He has presented at international conferences and published numerous peer reviewed articles on many topics including trauma. Several of these articles have been published in multiple languages. His 2023 book on trauma was published by Routledge and is titled, Physical Touch in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Transforming Trauma through Embodied Practice. He is the book review editor for the Transactional Analysis Journal and a member of the editorial board.
This workshop in a collaboration between the Link Centre and Onlinevents
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