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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · 2d

We're delighted to be co-hosting another fabulous session next week with @ukpts.bsky.social

UKPTS @ukpts.bsky.social · 2d

We've got another brilliant and FREE online UKPTS Bites coming up, with one of the architects of ICD-11 CPTSD diagnosis!

"Complex PTSD: What's next?"
Prof. Marylene Cloitre

Friday 17 October 2025
4-4.30pm (UK)

More information: ukpts.org/events

#trauma #PTSD #CPTSD #psychology #psyscisky

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UKPTS @ukpts.bsky.social · 24d

We're already getting excited for #UKPTS2026

🚨Get involved and submit your abstracts now!🚨

"The Burden of Care: #Trauma & #Moral Injury in the UK Public Sector"

26.01.2026

ukpts.org/conference2026

#conference #bluelight #healthcare #psyscisky #psychology #ethics

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

All that's left is to thank the Georgian Society for Psychotrauma, Abbey Events, the Biltmore, #ESTSS2025 volunteers, supporters, speakers and delegates, those who followed along, and of course the wonderful people of Tbilisi and Georgia

გმადლობთ, see you in Portugal in 2027!

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

The 19th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies will be

"Talking about Trauma: Threats, Procedures and Challenges"
Hosted by Observatório do Trauma & @ucoimbra.bsky.social‬
3-6 June 2027
Coimbra, Portugal

www.estss2027.com

#ESTSS2025 #ESTSS2027

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

"One of my hopes with #ESTSS2025 is that we would leave as ambassadors for Georgia, and we've come together a family." Dominic offers thanks to all present "for making #ESTSS2025 come alive".

He pays special tribute to co-chairs Jana D Javakhishvili and Lela Tsiskarishvili

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

ESTSS President Dominic Murphy reflects on the #ESTSS2025 keynotes: the power of implementation; dealing in truth; and the importance of the past.

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

The winner of the #ESTSS2025 Academic Poster competition is:
-Jeanet Karchoud (Amsterdam UMC).

Commended:
-Cornelia Mǎirean & Alexandra Cobzeanu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University).
-Lisa Steenkamp (Sinai Centrum).

Congratulations to all authors and co-authors.

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

She shares three truths observed over #ESTSS2025:
- both trauma *and* resilience have so many faces
- silence protects nobody
- we have a shared responsibility to treat, witness and integrate
" please take these with you; we should be hopeful...unified...and good luck"

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

he thanks all delegates, organisers, speakers, volunteers, and sponsors for their presence. She pays tribute to the plurality of voices heard over the past 3 days especially "those who need our help and with whom we stand and share".

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

#ESTSS2025 welcomes to the stage Professor Nino Makhashvili (Georgian Society of Psychotrauma).

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

Don't go anywhere, as we are straight into the Closing Ceremony of #ESTSS2025. Stay tuned to find out who has won the Academic Paper prizes and (very importantly) where we will all be meeting up in 2027*....

(*and if your correspondent will need to invest in yet another plug adaptor)

ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

Further information on Prof Jana D Javakhishvili's profile and research can be found at:

faculty.iliauni.edu.ge/arts/darejan...

www.researchgate.net/profile/Dare...

orcid.org/0000-0003-01...

ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

"We cannot ignore what is happening, we need to put our heads together... to work out how to study societal trauma. We need to do more!" she says. And perhaps our role extends beyond treatment, into witnessing, innovating and importantly globally collaborating.

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

She concedes that she does have more questions than answers:
is this limited to m.h. problems only?
should we be reactive or proactive?
can we contribute to prevention of unhealthy developments at the societal level?

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

"The measurement of outcomes shows this works," she says. Noting the lasting positive impact via standardised measures, "it's promising".
"It is possible to help those trapped in a conflict zone"

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

in brief, the platform provides a consistent chain of secure digital mental health interventions, including: self-screening, psychoeducation and self-help, transdiagnostic psychological counselling modular interventions, and advanced trauma-focused interventions

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

For more information on the work:
Javakhishvili, J., et al. (2023). Providing immediate digital mental health interventions and psychotrauma support during political crises. The Lancet Psychiatry, 10(9), 727–732. doi.org/10.1016/S221...

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

So how can care be provided during ongoing threat - intervening during war and prolonged conflicts?, she asks. She cites ongoing international collaborative work in Belarus: samopomo.ch samopomi.ch

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

Societal trauma operates not only at a higher level, but at the personal - with implications for individual health, functioning and also may includes questions and considerations around radicalisation and violence.

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

To do so requires acknowledgement, science, art and cultural rituals, justice, compensation, services, rehabilitation and recovery at a personal, state, governmental and societal level.

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

She goes on to draw from Georgia's own history: "since we became independent in 1991, we have never had the luxury of dealing with our past; no reflection".
Drawing on Klein and Herman, she explores that to process trauma requires mourning, & there is no closure without justice

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

Jana cites the Stumbling Stones or Stolpersteine project in Germany as a way of 'authentic mourning' and addressing societal dimensions of trauma experience and transmission:
www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/...

'Stumbling stones': a different vision of Holocaust remembrance

A German artist has now laid more than 70,000 Stolpersteine stones in cities around the world – but not everyone approves

www.theguardian.com

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

"Moral injury studies are on the rise, but we are repeating the same pattern - concentrating on intrapersonal and interpersonal levels, but societal level is still ignored"
- Jana D Javakhishvili

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

Jana cites Alexander and colleagues' work on the concept of cultural trauma with reference to Holocaust studies, as well as the psychoanalytical work of Earl Hopper and Vamp Volkan, and most recently Andreas Maercker.

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ESTSS @estss.bsky.social · Jun 15

This transmission can take place via various mechanisms: attachment type; defence mechanisms; social learning; family openness; parent m.h. problems; and much more. Yet little is understood beyond psychoanalysis on the societal mechanisms, Jana says.

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