Empty Memories
Trauma Conference
October 1999

Empty Memories is planning a symposium on Psychic Trauma and Dissociation for October 28 1999.

Contact Information

Ms. Elisabeth Mooy (organisation)
J. Kruyverstraat 109
1507 WG Zaandam
The Netherland
Tel. +31 75 6164905
E-mail: elisabeth.mooy@wxs.nl

Ms. Emma van Weringh
Arthur van Schendeldreef 19
3069 WL Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 10 4552688
E-mail: imagun@globalxs.nl

Topic:

About recent sientific insights, clinical guidlines, and discussion on trauma induced memory-disorders and recovered memories/false memories of abuse. The conference is intended for psychiatrists, psychologists, and other interested mental health professionals and reserachers involved in the diagnosis and treatment of traumatized patients/clients and for survivors/overcomers of trauma. We need to hear from interested parties so we can focus our plans and provide the best for everyone. If you would like to know more, please contact Elisabeth Mooy (organization) at elisabeth.mooy@wxs.nl or Emma van Weringh at imagun@globalxs.nl or by postal mail (see address above).

Location and Time:

We intend to hold the conference in Utrecht on October 28 1999 from 9.00 untill 18.00 in the Jaarbeurs the Utrecht. It is close by and can be reached from Central Station Utrecht. There is sufficient parking place nearby.

Language:

The language used at the conference will be English.

Provisional Program and Speakers
(incl. a short faculty) (in alphabetical order)

Opening chairman
Th. Becker (Germany)
socialworker, working at Kult- und Ritual-Trauma - institut in Lueneburg, Germany as supervisor, specialised counselor, and case manager for mental health and law enforcement professionals in the field of ritual violence, organised child abuse and dissociative disorders. Currently working on his Ph.D. in socialwork and religious sciences on the Phenomenon of Ritual Abuse. Member of the executive council of the German section of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD). Awarded in 1994 with the "Deutscher Kinderschutzpreis" ('German Child Protection Award') for his work with Child Survivors of Ritual Abuse.
L. Crook M.Ed. (U.S.A.)
Editor of the journal "Treating Abuse Today". Publisher of articles. Formerly served as the director of a sexual assault center in Washington State. In 1994 a judge declared in her favor in a repressed memory case which she had filed.
U. Froehling (Germany)
Sociologist, Journalist, founding member of the German ISSD study group. Author of "Vater unser in der Hölle" ( "the first in-depth German study of a DID patient with a back-ground of severe home abuse, child prostitution and satanic ritual abuse"). Research on influence of the FMSF on the German press; involved in government inquiry on "Ritual abuse in child sex rings and destructive cults"; together with Dipl.-Psych. Michaela Huber carries out pilot study on SRA.
O. Heijtmajer M.D. (the Netherlands)
Psychiatrist and psychotherapist, working both in private practice and in a Mental Health Centre. She has 8 years experience of working with DID patients, she has seen over 100 patients for assessment, consultation or treatment and has given supervision and clinical lessons and presentations for workers in mental health. Also she has presented on several ISSD conferences in the USA, UK, Israel (ISTSS) and the Netherlands. She wrote conference and book reviews, conference articles (especially on The Diagnostic Drawing Series) and was co-author of a chapter on Ritual Abuse in European Countries in the book "The Dilemma of Ritual Abuse", edited by George Fraser.
M. Katchen Ph.D. (U.S.A.)
Publisher and a scholar in the field of the Sociology of Religion and a graduate of the School of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney. He recently completed a study which found high incidence of dissociative disorders in former members of strict religious cults and sects, particulary among those who had been born in these groups.
A. McKenna (U.S.A.)
Survivor of mindcontrol and SRA. She attributes much of her healing to her strong internal system and to scrapbook therapy. Her hope is by sharing what has helped her will help other survivors/overcomers as well
N.J. Nicolai M.D. (the Netherlands)
Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, (screening, diagnostics and treatment of D.D.) working both in private practice and in a Mental Health Centre. Publisher of articles. Author of the books: Vrouwenhulpverlening en psychiatrie (1992), In de Arena (1998)
F. Olthuis Ph.D. (the Netherlands)
Chairman of the NVVDS (Dutch - Flemish Society for the study of Dissociative Disorders) Publisher of articles on D.D.
K.Pyck M.D.
(Belgium)is a neuro-psychiatrist at KU Leuven University (Belgium), specialized in child psychiatry. He also was a physician-hygienist in youth-welfare. Since 1970, professor in Child and Youth Psychiatry of KU Leuven University. Since 1990 he specializes in difficulties regarding detection of sexual abuse and the taboo in society. He studied a.o., the Jordan and the Mc Martin day care centers in the U.S. the Cleveland and Browntown cases in the United Kingdom, the Oude Pekela and Eper-incest crisis in the Netherlands, the Rourn-case in Denmark, the Mr. Bubbles-case in Australia and the polarization in the Dutroux-case in Belgium. He gave many lecturers about this at foreign University's and international congresses and published many articles In Dutch and Belgian newspapers. Publisher of the articles (a.o.): The Backlash in Europe; Real Anxiety or Mass Hysteria in the Netherlands, a plenary study of the Oude-Pekela crisis. In Myers J., The Backlash, Child Protection under fire. Newbury Park (CA, U.S.A.): Sage Publications, 1994, 70-85. Massahysterie in Oude Pekela? Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, 1995, 37, nr.3, 219-237. "Backlash as underlying mechanism of the Belgian disease", Reflections after a year Dutroux, Tijdschrift voor het Geestelijk Leven, 1997,nr.5, 491-507
J.M. Riseman, (U.S.A.)
Graduate of Harvard University and Boston School of Social Work, clinical social worker and a 'grass-roots' organizer for survivors/overcomers. Editor of the webpage "Ritual abuse, Ritual crime and Healing'.
Regina Louf, (Belgium)
Former Mrs X1, Victim of childprostitution in Belgium.
Conclusion
Reception
Closing

Costs:

For professionals ƒ 150 pro person, included is lunch.
For psychiatric residents and graduate students clinical psychology ƒ 75 pro person
For trauma survivors ƒ 35 pro person including lunch.

Registration Form

You can register before September 1th 1999 by sending in the registration form. Participants will be billed after registration. Free cancelling is possible up to September 20 1999 , after that 50% of the total amount will be charged. No refund is possible after September 20 1999. It is always posible to send a replacement. Three weeks before the symposium takes place you will receive an acknowledgement and a route description.

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Empty Memories Trauma Conference October 1999