We are delighted to report that the book Trauma and Memory: the Science and the Silenced, co-edited by the Chair of CDS UK’s Board of Trustees Dr Ashley Conway and founder and patron Dr Valerie Sinason, has been awarded the Frank W Putnam Prize, announced at the ISSTD conference in Seattle on 2nd April 2022.
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Congratulations to our esteemed founder Dr Valerie Sinason, who in November 2021 received the British Psychoanalytic Council Award for Innovative Excellence for her work with children and adults who have experienced trauma, disability, dissociation and ritual abuse.
Chair of CDS UK’s Board of Trustees Dr Ashley Conway and founder and patron Dr Valerie Sinason have edited this important publication to assist mental health experts and professionals, as well as the interested public, in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory, and how this differs from other areas of memory.
It is available from many bookshops and at Amazon here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trauma-Memory-Silenced-Valerie-Sinason/dp/1032044292
Our Senior Consultant Psychotherapist Graeme Galton has a chapter in this fascinating new book. Using attachment theory as a lens for understanding the role of food in our everyday lives, this book explores relationships with other people, with ourselves and between client and therapist, through our connection with food. Enriched throughout with diverse clinical case studies, this edited collection illuminates how relationships to food can be a rich source of insight and understanding for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and other counselling therapists working today.
The book is available from Amazon at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Attachment-Relationships-Food-Cradle-Kitchen/dp/0367561301/ref=sr_1_2?crid=8AVASI2HTLD1&keywords=from+cradle+to+kitchen&qid=1671204758&sprefix=from+cradle+to+kitchen%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-2
Notice Regarding COVID-19
CDS UK (Clinic for Dissociative Studies) remains open and our therapists and therapeutic teams continue to support their patients. In most most cases this will be online or on the phone. We are following all NHS and Government guidelines with regard to safer working.
We recognise that everyone is under more strain at this very difficult time. We know that this current situation will be having a significant impact on people’s mental health as well as potentially their physical health. We aim at CDS UK to continue to offer our support to people throughout this time.
We will continue to be available for contact with professionals and potential patients wishing to discuss possible referrals and we will continue to support funding requests to Clinical Commissioning Groups.
When funding for assessments is agreed, our clinical management team will consider whether we can offer an assessment on a case by case basis.In most instances we will have to delay assessments until the COVID-19 restrictions are relaxed. Online assessments will be considered, where appropriate safety measures can be put in place.
We are still accepting applications (via a CV and covering letter) for those professionals wishing to register to work with us.
Our accounts team may take a little longer to respond to queries. Calls to the clinic will still be answered. However, we may be able to respond more quickly to queries by e-mail at info@clinicds.com.
Referrals – Please send through all referrals via email to info@clinicds.com as our staff are currently working from home and the post will be checked less frequently than normal.
Congratulations from all of us to Dr Valerie Sinason, CDS UK Founder and Former Director, who has just been made a fellow of the ISSTD – March 2018 – to add to her Lifetime Achievement Award of 2016. Fitting recognition to her lasting contribution to the field of complex trauma and dissociation.
on the award of her New Year’s honour for services to people with dissociative disorders. An excellent recognition of the hard work of survivor-led organisations for people with dissociative disorders – Well done Kathryn!
CDS UK is delighted to announce the appointment of two new members of the senior management team
Mr Mark Linington came into post as Clinical Lead on 8th January 2018 and Mr Peter Loble as Finance Director on 20th February 2018.
Senior staff from CDS UK again represented a substantial portion of the UK’s contribution to the international field of complex trauma and dissociation with presentations at the annual international conference in both the clinical and theoretical arenas.
