Are you interested in psychology? Also check out our blog: www.psyche.swps.pl You can also listen to the content we share on this channel as podcasts on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5cGf88v... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/s... SoundCloud: / swpspl Lecton: https://lectonapp.com/podcast/e2bfa63... How do we recognize when we are dealing with a normal reaction to an abnormal situation? How do children and adults cope with the effects of trauma? When can we talk about post-traumatic disorders? Who should we seek help from when the effects of trauma disorganize our lives? Dr. Elżbieta Zdankiewicz-Ścigała, psychologist and therapist from SWPS University, author of the book "Alexithymia and dissociation as basic factors of post-traumatic phenomena", talks about alexithymia, or the tendency to "emotional blindness" and dissociative disorders. The lecture concerns the analysis of mental processes occurring during coping with the effects of trauma. The audience learns when remembering the experienced trauma can be an important anchor, which - when we start to rush - restores our system of values, corrects our tendencies and indicates that the most important thing in life is... life, and when it becomes a difficult to assimilate and overwhelming experience that casts a shadow on the entire later life. The determinants of these very complex and painful processes were discussed: alexithymia, or the tendency to "emotional blindness" and dissociation, or the tendency to "disconnect" in potentially traumatic situations. About the speaker: Dr. Elżbieta Zdankiewicz-Ścigała - psychologist, PhD in humanities. Works at SWPS University in Warsaw. Author of articles and scientific books on the determinants of the development of psychological representation of emotions in norm and pathology (alexithymia) and post-traumatic stress disorders. Conducts research projects in the area of ​​the impact of trauma on the development of PTSD and other disorders related to the consequences of complex traumas. Directs her own postgraduate studies at SWPS University: Crisis Psychology and Crisis Intervention and Psychotraumatology. For over a dozen years, she has been continuously involved in clinical practice, specializing in psychotherapy for people who have experienced complex traumas. She is a member of, among others, the Polish Psychological Association and the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. About the project: Strefa Psyche of SWPS University is an innovative undertaking, the aim of which is to popularize psychological knowledge at the highest substantive level and to discover the possibilities of action offered by psychology in various spheres of both private and professional life. We want to show the practical application of psychological knowledge not only in the spheres obvious for this field of science (e.g. assistance, therapy), but also in the business sector and advanced, modern technologies. More about the project: http://www.swps.pl/strefa-psyche #trauma #lęk #psychologia #PTSD #aleksytymia #dyssocjacja #psychoterapia