10 years of the Crisis, Disaster and Trauma Section.

The conference began with two talks on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - Professor of Mental Health Thanos Karatzias (Edinburgh Napier University) was first, with an exploration of what we know about complex PTSD (CPTSD). Lee said that complex PTSD was a helpful new diagnosis and its three symptom clusters which are distinct from PTSD all have shame in common. Last year Clinical Psychologists Dr Hannah Murray (Oxford Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma; OxCADAT) and Dr Sharif El-Leithy released their book Working with Complexity in PTSD: A Cognitive Therapy Approach. [Extracted from the article]