Doris D’Hooghe & Frauke Heyde   Unfortunately, violence against women* is still an everyday reality (*more specifically, anyone who identifies as a woman or female, i.e., not just cis women, but also trans women, gender fluid individuals, etc.). Given that every human being needs and deserves safety, one of the...

Raising awareness about early childhood adverse experiences in a care giving relationship and their impact on a child’s development. “What is believed to be essential for mental health is that the infant and young child should experience a warm, intimate, and continuous relationship with his mother in which both find...

Abstract Recent research has suggested that betrayal trauma, where a child is an object of others’ violence, can lead to him or her becoming an aggressor later in life. Trauma and violence have been shown to be integrally linked. A shattered self leads to a shattered world through elements such...

In het woonzorgcentrum hadden ze mij gevraagd om contact met een bewoonster op te nemen omdat ze de hele tijd zo angstig was. Ik stapte haar kamer binnen. Het was een zonnige dag in de herfst en warme kleuren dompelden haar kamer in een vredige gloed. De bejaarde vrouw was...

Written by Layla Brack. Working in the same practice as Doris D’Hooghe, she inspires me daily, as she has come up with integrations of different theories and new perspectives on existing literature. She also introduced ‘Invisible Attachment Trauma’ in some of her workshops, which is a term that has not...

1980, the year I graduate with a Bachelor of psychiatric nursing and start work in the psychiatric ward of a general hospital – full of enthusiasm, passion, and the conviction that I am going to make a difference! My biggest drive is a personal motivation to help others recover from...

  Alle harten in de etalages, de met roze-rood doordrenkte reclame om lief te hebben en de liefde te eren, brengen mijn gedachten naar mijn ervaring met Meneer S. Meneer S. had euthanasie aangevraagd, wat ook toegankelijk werd verklaard. Omwille van de zorg om zijn emotionele toestand werd ik als...

  Mensen hebben elkaar nodig. Ons brein is “hard-wired” om de verbinding met de ander aan te gaan. We zijn geen geïsoleerde wezens. Meer nog, de verbinding aangaan met die ander is in die mate belangrijk dat het bijdraagt aan onze fysische, psychologische, neurologische en sociale ontwikkeling. Het is in...