COMMUNITY
Science meets practice
Ukraine is currently the world’s largest laboratory for studying the psychological effects of war. We are turning the experience of Ukrainian transgenerational trauma into science.
COMMUNITY
Science meets practice
Ukraine is currently the world’s largest laboratory for studying the psychological effects of war. We are turning the experience of Ukrainian transgenerational trauma into science.
A conference is not just about presentations. It is a moment when clinical experience becomes shared. When a psychologist from Kyiv and a researcher from Toronto realize they have witnessed the same thing—in different people, in different countries, in different wars.
Kyiv as a Hub for Global Discussions on War Trauma
Transgenerational trauma is rapidly emerging as a clinical discipline, but it still lacks its own international scientific platform. Conferences on trauma are held in Vienna, Amsterdam, and New York. But none of these cities has what Kyiv has: five years of active war, millions of people in a state of acute and chronic trauma, and at the same time—a professional community working with this in real time.
Kyiv is the epicenter of the greatest humanitarian catastrophe of our time. And it is from here that the voice of science must be heard, explaining how people experience war.
Living knowledge is conveyed differently than written knowledge. What happens between people in the room is also therapeutic—for everyone involved.
Tetiana Stanislavska
International Conference on “Anatomy of Trauma”
22 speakers · 11 countries · 4 days of professional dialogue on the intergenerational transmission of historical trauma · 2023
The First International Conference of the “Institute of War-Related Psychological Trauma”: four days of presentations, workshops, and discussions on war-related psychological trauma.
Topics: PTSD, grief counseling, transgenerational trauma, and veteran reintegration.
View the list of participants.
The annual conference is our goal
We want to make “Anatomy of Trauma” an annual event—a permanent international forum where researchers and clinicians from different countries come together to discuss a single theme: how the trauma of war is passed down through generations and how to stop it.
Every year brings new data, new participants, and new questions that war poses to science and practice.
We have been working throughout the war — and we will continue to do so afterward.
Join us.
For inquiries regarding cooperation:
warpsychotrauma@gmail.com +380 68 95 92 911
About mental health during and after the war (in Ukrainian, but you can use Telegram’s translator):
