Mentalizing Psychological Trauma: “How to Think about the Unthinkable”

Dr. Clare Pain is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry, Director of the Psychological Trauma Program at Mount Sinai Hospital, Co-project director of the Toronto Addis Ababa Psychiatry Project (TAAPP), and Coordinator of the University of Toronto-Addis Ababa Collaboration Program She is the recipient of the President’s Award at the International Society for the Study of Dissociation and is the 2003 “Top Rated President Module Lecturer” in the Psychiatry Residency Program at the University of Western Ontario She has also won the University of Toronto Supervisor’s award.

Dr. Pain’s focus is on the assessment and treatment of patients with psychological trauma and trans-cultural aspects of psychological trauma. She co-authored “Trauma and the Body: a Sensorimortor Approach to Psychotherapy” with Pat Ogden and Kekuni Minton (Norton, 2006).

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