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Broken Trust and Damaged Minds

State:

Approved

Contact Details

I am the event manager:

I am the event manager

Event Manager Info

1. Event Manager Organisation:

Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science

2. Event Manager First Name:

Peter

3. Event Manager Surname:

Naish

4. Event Manager Address line 1:

Old Keeper's Cottage

5. Event Manager Address line 2:

Collins End

6. Event Manager Address line 3:

Goring Heath

7. Event Manager Postcode:

RG8 7RN

8. Event Manager Telephone number:

01491 680 944

9. Event Manager Email address:

pnaish@psych2000.fsnet.co.uk

Your event

10. Which of the following areas of science does you event best fit into?:

Psychology

Event type and format

17. Length:

2 hour

18. What will the format of your event be?:

Talks/presentations - 1 person presenting new science or for a specific audience with Q & A; or a TED talk

19. Please give any details about the format of your event you feel are relevant.:

The material is for adults. Some, such as issues for law courts, will provoke much discussion. The presentation will be of a form that permits ongoing Q&A and there will be demonstration material to break up the talking and lighten the mood.

20. Location/venue:

Venue and location to be allocated by the Festival team

21. Venue requirements:

Data projector and power supply. It is possible that a few members of the audience may be CSA victims. They will be offered the chance for a separate chat afterwards. It would be good to have a small room available for this.

22. Audience Level:

All adults

Event details

12. Event title:

Broken Trust and Damaged Minds

13. Description of the core message of your event and key topics to be covered (c.100 words):

Covers Child Sex Abuse (CSA), psychotic symptoms, impact of trauma, PTSD, effects on brain. A high proportion of adults with symptoms of psychosis report experiencing CSA. It is reasonable to believe that abuse causes the mental condition. The symptoms have much in common with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and a mechanism is proposed that accounts for similarities by means of brain changes that are common to both. The nature of these changes will be explained, and the means of detecting them demonstrated.

16. How does your event relate to this year's theme of 'Making waves'?:

The ripples that spread from CSA can reach far into the future, changing brain function and changing the victim's responses to subsequent events. Even their 'brain waves' change.

Press interest

23. Do you consider that the event will attract press interest?:

Yes

24. If yes, please summarise up to 4 key points you think will be of press interest:

Does CSA cause schizophrenia? Is CSA close to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? Does CSA make you more susceptible to hypnosis? Does CSA change the brain? The answers to all the above are "Probably, yes - at least sometimes."

25. Do you have any other comments you would like to make or information you would like to include?:

The organiser spent some years working with the Ministry of Defence, researching programmes to deal with PTSD. Additionally, he accustomed to dealing with adults who were abused as children. Also relevant - he is Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board to the British False Memory Society.