Join McLean and Harvard Medical School for Inaugural Conference on Dissociative Identity Disorder, Sept. 18-21, 2024

McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School Continuing Education invite you to attend Stronger Together: Dissociative Identity Disorder Past, Present, and Future, their inaugural conference and pre-conference workshop on Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Stronger Together features an international panel of experts and people with lived experience, including some of our own faculty members.

DID is a complex and often misunderstood psychiatric condition that is also highly treatable. While 1% or more of the global population is currently living with DID, this condition is often confused with PTSD or other psychiatric disorders, making it difficult for patients to receive effective treatments that may significantly improve their quality of life.

Stronger Together is designed for psychiatrists and other physicians, psychologists, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, counselors, and other health practitioners who are on the front lines of working with patients seeking treatment for trauma-related concerns. Both the conference and pre-conference workshop are live virtual events.

Course Directors:
	Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD, Founder and Co-Director, Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program, McLean Hospital; Medical Director, Trauma Continuum of Care at the Hill Center, McLean Hospital; and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
	Bethany Brand, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Towson University
	Richard J. Loewenstein, MD, Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine
	Lauren Lebois, PhD, Director, Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program, McLean Hospital; and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
	Matthew Robinson, PhD, Program Director, Trauma Continuum of Care at the Hill Center; Research Psychologist, Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program, McLean Hospital; and Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
	Christopher Palmer, MD, Founder and Director, Metabolic and Mental Health Program, McLean Hospital; Director, Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital; and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

What Can You Expect?
Learn about the causes of DID, how to assess it, and how to treat patients living with it. This is especially vital for a condition that is often misrepresented in the media and for which there is scant information in traditional medical texts.

Who Should Attend?

What Will You Experience?
See the complete agenda or visit: https://cmecatalog.hms.harvard.edu/stronger-together-dissociative-identity-disorder/agenda

Accreditation
Harvard Medical School is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for healthcare teams. Visit our website for all credits available, learning objectives and additional details at https://cmecatalog.hms.harvard.edu/stronger-together-dissociative-identity-disorder

Tuition and Registration
Tuition for Stronger Together: Dissociative Identity Disorder Past, Present, and Future is online.

Questions? Email ceprograms@hms.harvard.edu

New Book Alert!

Shattered No More: Healing for Survivors of Abuse, Interpersonal Violence, and Complex Trauma
by Heather Davediuk Gingrich

Shattered No More! is written in a primarily question-answer format that gives clear answers, in non-technical language, to the burning questions to which many survivors are seeking answers. It integrates material from the trauma, abuse, and dissociative disorders literatures in a way that addresses the internal fragmentation and shattered experience of the world that is so common to survivors of sexual, physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse. Abuse survivors invariably struggle with deep spiritual issues (e.g., “Why did God not protect me?”). Therefore, although intended primarily for readers that identify as Christian, survivors from many different religious backgrounds, or those who have no religious upbringing, will find that it addresses pertinent spiritual questions that are virtually ignored in most self-help books for survivors.

Shattered No More: Healing for Survivors of Abuse, Interpersonal Violence, and Complex Trauma is available from AACC.net and Amazon.

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