Dr. Scott is a healer who walks the fine line between mysticism and evidenced-based psychotherapy. She is a licensed psychotherapist (LPCC917) with additional certifications as a registered and board-certified art therapist (ATR-BC), registered expressive arts therapist (REAT), internationally certified advanced alcohol and drug counselor (ICAADC), and as a certified interfaith spiritual director. In addition, she is an Amazon number one best selling author in six countries, artist, photographer, and poet.
For 40 years, she has worked with those who struggle with substance use and behavioral disorders, survivors of trauma, complex trauma, torture, and dissociation, and victims of sex trafficking and ritual crime. She is an Honorary Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, the oldest trauma organization in the world, and she was given the Alumni Recognition Award by Sierra Tucson for her work as a trauma and addiction therapist. For ISSTD she was granted the honorary title of Fellow for her research on the topic of profound self-mutilation by those with dissociative identity disorders, and her advocacy for disempowered populations. This research, which included life-sized silhouette drawings and poetry, was published in a peer review journal by UCLA in 1999. Her commitment to health, wellness, and "art as medicine" includes art-based experiential teaching for the medical doctors in Andrew Weil’s University of Arizona Center for Complementary Medicine (8 years), professional clinicians, the public, and her own personal health journey.
Her investment in social change via the arts across the world includes travel, presentations, collaboration, and cultural exchange in 4 continents. Her worldwide creative and spiritual workshops bring hope and healing to diverse populations. Several of her peer-reviewed academic publications and lectures have been translated into Prussian, Arabic, Spanish, and Czechoslovakian. Last year, Dr. Scott was the keynote speaker in Cairo for the first international scientific art therapy conference in Egypt.
"I give the credit for my success to the power of art to heal and transform even the most challenging problems.”
Historical and Clinical Perspectives of Art by Patients Who Report Extreme, Ritualized, and Organized Trauma
This 90 minute lecture is a brief introduction to the historical and clinical possibility of ritual abuse and mind control. The lecture is presented via art made by several past clients and patients, in sessions and in-between sessions, from as early as the 1980s and 1990s. The primary focus of this presentation is about how to respectfully bear witness to what is brought to a session, even if the content validity is doubted.
When clients and patients are allowed to process their perceptions of extreme, ritualized, and organized trauma safely in a therapy session, even if there are misperce...Read moreptions, progress is made and healing happens.
The content of the art in this lecture is extreme and difficult to witness, yet if we cannot look at the art by those who are suffering, how can we be present for our clients and patients? This lecture does not prepare any therapist to work with this clinical population without adequate supervision from an expert.
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Ultimately, it is the wish of this presenter to offer hope in a cynical world.
Content Advisory:
Be aware that this presentation contains explicit content regarding ritual abuse, including images and descriptions that may be disturbing. Please engage with care and take breaks or seek support as needed. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Give 2 reasons why is it important for the therapist to refrain from interpreting patient imagery and symbols too quickly or too literally
- Explain why and how the patient is the authority of the interpretive meaning of the the art content and symbols produced in the therapy process
- Distinguish 2 differences between art representing alleged criminal ritual abuse and art representing alleged totalitarian abuse
- Identify and recount an example of your own countertransference (on the continuum of extreme denial to hysteria) specific to alleged ritual and totalitarian abuse
Friday, September 27, 2024
Live Interactive Webinar
12:00 PM PDT - 01:30 PM PDT
EARN 1.5 CE Credit Hours
About the speaker
Ericha Scott, PhD, LPCC, ATR-BC, REAT
CE Information - Earn 1.5 CE Credit Hours
CE Approvals
California Psychological Association
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