We don't know exactly what the workshop will cover yet, but Dr. Ross agreed to have the topic focus on dissociation, dissociative disorders, DID, and healing from these disorders, as they occur in the context of child sexual abuse.
For example:
· Therapeutic challenges in child patients as well as in adult survivors
of child sexual abuse with dissociative disorders
· Etiological factors of DID: how important is the severity of the abuse vs. other environmental factors,
genetic, or other innate factors?
· The irony that DID protects the child sexual abuse victim but makes the child a less credible witness.
· Correlations between deliberate torture-based mind control and DID
· The most important Take-Home message for therapists
· The most important Take-Home message for survivors and or parents of child victims
We also read his list of suggested topics on his website, and told him that we will be very happy if he also manages to tie in any of the following from his list in with the main topic as described above:
· The Problem of Attachment to the Perpetrator in Child Abuse Victims
· Long Term Effects of Child Abuse
· A Trauma Model of Borderline Personality Disorder
· A Dissociative Subtype of Schizophrenia
· How to Choose a Trauma Therapist
· Childhood Trauma and Eating Disorders
· Psychotherapy of Complex Comorbid Trauma Cases