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The next ESTD conference is in Brussels in March 2023.

Its title is “When Attachment Meets Trauma:

Disorganization and Dissociation From Childhood to Adulthood”.

Preconference Workshops and Conference

DoubleTree Brussels Hotel, 9-11 March 2023 – Brussels

Click on this link for more information

https://www.estd-aftd2023.brussels/English/

CDS UK will be collaborating with the Bowlby Centre on the 26th John Bowlby Memorial Conference, entitled “Exploring DID – an Attachment-based Approach”.

The conference will take place from 9am-4pm on Saturday 25th February 2023.  Speakers from CDS UK will include CEO Mark Linington and Clinical Director Emma Jack, as well as founder/patron Dr Valerie Sinason and founding psychotherapist Adah Sachs.  Other speakers include Orit Badouk Epstein, Catherine Holland, Melanie Goodwin and Michelle Jewett.  The event will be chaired by Sue Richardson.

For more information and to book tickets, visit https://thebowlbycentre.org.uk/events/2023-john-bowlby-conference/.

We are delighted to report that the book Trauma and Memory: the Science and the Silenced, co-edited by the Chair of CDS UK’s Board of Trustees Dr Ashley Conway and founder and patron Dr Valerie Sinason, has been awarded the Frank W Putnam Prize, announced at the ISSTD conference in Seattle on 2nd April 2022.

Congratulations to our esteemed founder Dr Valerie Sinason, who in November 2021 received the British Psychoanalytic Council Award for Innovative Excellence for her work with children and adults who have experienced trauma, disability, dissociation and ritual abuse.

Chair of CDS UK’s Board of Trustees Dr Ashley Conway and founder and patron Dr Valerie Sinason have edited this important publication to assist mental health experts and professionals, as well as the interested public, in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory, and how this differs from other areas of memory.

It is available from many bookshops and at Amazon here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trauma-Memory-Silenced-Valerie-Sinason/dp/1032044292

Our Senior Consultant Psychotherapist Graeme Galton has a chapter in this fascinating new book.  Using attachment theory as a lens for understanding the role of food in our everyday lives, this book explores relationships with other people, with ourselves and between client and therapist, through our connection with food. Enriched throughout with diverse clinical case studies, this edited collection illuminates how relationships to food can be a rich source of insight and understanding for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and other counselling therapists working today.

The book is available from Amazon at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Attachment-Relationships-Food-Cradle-Kitchen/dp/0367561301/ref=sr_1_2?crid=8AVASI2HTLD1&keywords=from+cradle+to+kitchen&qid=1671204758&sprefix=from+cradle+to+kitchen%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-2