Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD
Dr. van der Kolk has been active as a clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of posttraumatic stress and related phenomena since the 1970s. His work integrates developmental, biological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment. His book Psychological Trauma was the first integrative text on the subject, exploring the far ranging impact of trauma on the entire person and the range of therapeutic issues which need to be addressed for recovery.
He has published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, such as dissociative problems, borderline personality and self-mutilation, cognitive development in traumatized children and adults, and the psychobiology of trauma. His current research is on how trauma affects memory processes and brain imaging studies of PTSD.
Dr. van der Kolk is a past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School, and Medical Director of the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute in Brookline, Massachusetts. His books include Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on the Mind, Body and Society and The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.
This lecture is free, but advance registration is requested. This event does not offer CME credit.
UPDATE: Due to the extraordinary demand for tickets, Dr. Van der Kolk and our panelists have graciously agreed to allow us to stream this year's lecture. The 2016 Wallerstein Lecture will be broadcast live on psychiatry.ucsf.edu/wallerstein beginning at 1 p.m. PDT on Thursday, March 24. It will also be made available for on-demand viewing for one week after the event (through March 31, 2016).
For further information, visit psych.ucsf.edu/wallerstein or contact contact Gina Martinez at (415) 476-7755 or [email protected].
About the Robert S. Wallerstein, MD Visiting Lectureship in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Each year, the UCSF Department of Psychiatry invites a distinguished scholar to speak on campus as part of the Robert S. Wallerstein, MD Visiting Lectureship in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. This lecture series is held in honor of the late Robert S. Wallerstein, MD, and is focused on showcasing psychoanalytic knowledge and clinical expertise that influence psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
About UCSF Psychiatry
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute are among the nation's foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult and geriatric mental health. Together they constitute one of the largest departments in the UCSF School of Medicine, with a mission focused on research (basic, translational, clinical), teaching, patient care, and public service. UCSF Psychiatry has an organizational structure that crosses all major UCSF sites - Parnassus, Mission Bay, Laurel Heights, Mt. Zion, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, the San Francisco VA Health System, and UCSF Fresno.
About UCSF
UCSF is a leading university dedicated to transforming health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. Founded in 1864 as a medical college, UCSF now includes top-ranked graduate schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy; a graduate division with world-renowned programs in the biological sciences, a preeminent biomedical research enterprise and top-tier hospitals, UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals.
