Houston Psychoanalytic Society
Evening Speaker Series
Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma
Ghislaine Boulanger, PhD
Thursday, March 7, 2024
7:30PM – 9:00PM Central Time

Live via Zoom
*Pre-Registration required for Zoom invitation
This event will not be recorded

Registration Fees
HPS Full Member: Free
HPS Student Member: Free
Non-Member: $30

1.5 CME/CEU/CE Credits

Instructional Level: Intermediate
When catastrophic events overtake adult lives, they can often scar the psyche in ways that psychodynamic clinicians struggle to understand. The adult survivor of a catastrophe--whether a life-threatening assault, a serious accident, an act of terrorism, or a natural disaster- experiences a near fatal disruption of fundamental aspects of self experience. Many who have physically survived catastrophic trauma are uncertain that they have psychologically survived the ordeal. Integrating recent findings in the neurobiology of stress and developmental psychology with relational psychoanalytic concepts, I shall describe the phenomenology of Adult Onset Trauma and suggest ways in which to work with it.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After attending the program in its entirety, attendees will be able to:
  1. Describe the phenomenology of Adult Onset Trauma.
  2. Describe necessary alterations to analytic technique to work with this condition.
  3. Describe ways to work with the inevitable vicarious traumatization that clinicians experience.
Presenter
Ghislaine Boulanger is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, a member of the Relational faculty at New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and on the faculty of Adelphi University’s Specialization in Trauma Studies. She is on the editorial boards of the Division/Review and the International Journal for Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. Since the publication of her book Wounded by Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma (Routledge, 2007), Dr. Boulanger has taught and published extensively on the psychodynamic dilemmas facing adults who have survived violent and life threatening events, and the challenges facing clinicians who work with them.

REFERENCES
1) Boulanger, G. (2018). When is vicarious trauma a necessary therapeutic tool? Psychoanalytic Psychology, 35: 60-69.
2) Boulanger, G. (2020). Diagnosis and its discontents: Chaim Shatan and the definition of military trauma. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 21(3): 218-225.
3) Boulanger, G. (2023). “Can you describe this?” UN officers and the families of the disappeared. In Bianchi, M.G. and Luci, M. (Eds.), Psychoanalytic, psychosocial, and human rights perspectives on enforced disappearance. London: Routledge.

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