LIVE WEBINAR: The Sex Addicted Brain
A Presentation of BRAIN.DOT.COM Productions
Presenter: Dr Sarah Ullman
Date: Coming in March, 2019, Stay tuned!
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: $49
Bonuses: This webinar includes downloadable Worksheets and access to the private Community Forum.
Who Should Attend: This webinar is for a general audience with or without any science or psychological background, and is equally appropriate for those in the healthcare professions.
Materials Used: A diverse set of learning tools including video clips, animated slides, engaging (non-graded!) quizzes and polls, colorful downloadable Worksheets to accompany and enhance the webinar experience, as well as access to the private Community Forum long after the webinar has ended.
Description: This webinar focuses on the neuropsychological syndrome of sexual addiction (SA), and although not yet recognized as a clinical disorder, it is nonetheless diagnosed and treated much like a drug or alcohol addiction. In reality, SA is a brain impairment that acts like a disease process in that it is progress, is a subset of the personality disorder known as Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), and if left untreated, can effect the immune system, and the areas of the brain collectively referred to as executive functioning that control impulses, decision-making, judgment, arousal, and a host of other important cognitive abilities and behaviors. SA produces psychological difficulties in attachment and intimacy, leaving the SA adult with the inability to regulate their mood or emotions appropriately. With rare exception, SA has its deep-seated roots in childhood sexual trauma whereby the development of certain areas of the brain have been altered. There is a subset of individuals with NPD that also have a sexual addiction, and while individuals with NPD do not necessarily have a sexual addiction, those that have a sexual addiction do have NPD. In sum, SA is a serious disorder that effects not just the individual, but those in their inner circle, as well as society. In addition to the individual and their loved ones, SA also has a significant impact on society.
Please join Dr Ullman for an exciting, entertaining, and educational 60-minute multimedia live webinar wherein you will learn about the impact of psychological trauma and how the brain is altered without ever having been physically touched. You will learn about these issues and more from one of the foremost Cognitive-Behavioral and neuroscience-based experts in the field of Complex Trauma (C-PTSD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Addiction from the clinician that has been researching, speaking, diagnosing, and treating those that have been impacted by psychological trauma for more than 30 years.
Upon completion of this webinar you will learn:
- to recognize the psychological, neurological, and behavioral signs of Sexual Addiction (SA)
- how SA and NPD intersect
- how early childhood sexual trauma can lead to SA
- how SA impacts relationships and society
- why some individuals are susceptible, but others with similar childhoods are not effected
- how those with SA come to be arousal dysregulated
- the effective treatment for SA
Presenter Info: With a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Dr Ullman has been educating, researching, diagnosing and treating individuals, couples, groups, families, and first responders for trauma and addiction-based disorders for more than 30 years, and has devoted both her research efforts and clinical work to the diagnoses and treatment specific to disorders of arousal dysregulation. This population includes children and adults that have experienced early childhood trauma such as sexual abuse, neglect, and/or violence. Unfortunately and through no fault of their own, a great many of these children, unable to self-regulate their emotions secondary to their abuse, develop issues in adulthood such as substance (drug and alcohol) and process (sex, food, self-harm, gambling) addictions, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), explosive uncontrollable anger, and personality distortions that may include Narcissistic (NPD) and Borderline (BPD) personality disorders.
In addition to teaching at various colleges and universities, Dr Ullman is an active emergency disaster responder for military and governmental agencies when disaster strikes, and maintains a private practice in the Philadelphia (mainline) Pennsylvania area of the United States. In addition to the local office, a considerable portion of her practice includes a national and international clientele via HIPAA/HITECH-compliant telemental health video web-therapy around the world.
Everyone who signs up for this webinar will be sent a free replay, just in case you were unable to attend the live event.