ORIGINAL COURSE
“War Won’t Write It Off. 4.0”
Оn mental health during active hostilities and terrorist attacks in Ukraine.
Author’s Course
“War Won’t Write Off. 4.0”
Оn mental health during active hostilities and terrorist attacks in Ukraine.
3 months
For three months we will be learning, socializing, and reading.
4 days a month
The classes are scheduled for Saturdays and Sundays, in two-day blocks, twice a month from 9 AM until 3 PM.
3 topics
The course reveals three topics, namely the basics of military, clinical and transgenerational psychology.
Original Course For Psychologists
Greetings. My name is Tatiana Stanislavskaya, and I am the author of the training course for psychologists “War Won’t Write It Off”. It is based on my knowledge and years of experience as a trauma therapist as well as on case studies of victims exposed to missile attacks in Kyiv.
Indeed, the branches of war, clinical, and transgenerational psychology are gaining particular relevance right now. But once the war is over, they will matter even more.
You can take my course or seek knowledge from other sources. But trust me, you will definitely need it. These are the times.
48 hours
of lectures
in eight days
24 hours
of group therapy
in four days
13 weeks
of intervisions
in three months
A course that has a history
The first run took place in winter 2022/23 – in December, January and February. The training took place during massive missile attacks, in the midst of blackouts, disrupted communications, issues with water supply and heating in Ukraine.
The second run lasted for three months in summer 2023 and coincided with Ukrainian armed forces counter-offense, blow-up of Nova Kakhovka hydropower plant and escalation of nuclear threat. Missile shellings and drone attacks hadn’t stopped for even a day.
The third run is the winter months of 2023-2024. There is a shortage of weapons at the front, a political crisis and lack of financial support in the country, and a great threat of a second offensive on Kyiv.
In spite of everything, all three training streams turned out to be very powerful. We studied, communicated, analyzed client cases in the intervention group. And we worked hard. We continued to work with our Ukrainians at the front, under occupation, in the rear under bombardment. It was an extraordinary experience of our joint professional growth in extreme conditions.
Dates for the fourth run of the course have not yet been determined, stay tuned to the Psychotrauma of War Telegram channel for announcements
You will appreciate “War Won’t Write It Off. 4.0” if:
you’ve spent a lot of time and money learning to become a professional psychologist, but now you lack new knowledge on war, clinical, and transgenerational psychology
You’ve got clients requesting something that you don’t know how to cope with.
You feel trapped in a professional vacuum: few colleagues understand how to work in the current context.
You have been affected by the war and all your previous knowledge seems to have lost its significance, while you need to keep practicing.
You are confused about concepts and terms. For example, you confuse “PTSD” with “combat mental trauma” or “combat stress”.
You have no time or significant financial resources to get another university degree.
You lack professional support in dealing with difficult client cases.
Before the war you loved your profession very much, but now you are confused and feel helpless.
You are one of those experts who is constantly learning and growing professionally.
Course Program
“War Won’t Write It Off. 4.0”
War | Clinic | Transgeneration
The Anatomy of Trauma
unit 1
lectures | Q&A | therapy elements
Trauma and the brain. Mechanism of trauma formation. Trauma as a trigger event for individual peculiarities.
Key contradictions in the state of trauma. Mental exhaustion. Fixation on trauma. Destroyed ego. Learned helplessness.
Golden rules of trauma therapy.
Crisis States Among the Military
unit 2
lectures | Q&A | therapy elements
Psychology of murder in combat. Captivity, torture, rapes. Amputation. Losses. Cheating, divorces.
Panic attacks. Anxious states. Neuroses. Sexual dysfunction.
Interaction with those coming back from the frontlines. Recommendations to colleagues and relatives.
Military
Psychiatry
unit 3
lectures | Q&A | therapy elements
The notions of norm and pathology. Differences between psychiatry and psychotherapy. The pentagram of psychiatric diagnoses and their brief overview.
Depression in ICD-11 and DSM-V. Monoamine and neurotrophic concepts. Raptus.
PTSD in ICD-11 and DSM-V. Symptom clusters.
Suicides and addictions. Brief overview of psychiatric drugs.
Transfer of Family Traumas
unit 4
lectures | Q&A | therapy elements
Transgenerational mental transfer of trauma in the context of history of the country, family, and personality. Freud, Jung, Szondi. Unconscious mechanisms of trauma transfer. Family systems, triangulation. Eric Bern’s “life scripts”. “The Dead Mother” by Andre Green. Bion’s containment theory.
Transgenerational mental transfer of trauma in the context of history of the country, family, and personality. Freud, Jung, Szondi. Unconscious mechanisms of trauma transfer. Family systems, triangulation. Eric Bern’s “life scripts”. “The Dead Mother” by Andre Green. Bion’s containment theory.
Family tragedies, including those during the war.
The War and me
unit 5
group therapy
Practical tasks. Interpersonal interaction. Analyses of individual cases.
My Family and the War
unit 6
group therapy
Presentation of personal/client’s cases of transgenerational trauma transfer inside families/generations.
Feedback from participants of “War Won’t Write It Off”
Ruslan Pavlov (Parus)
Deputy Battalion Commander in the Safari Special Forces Regiment
From the very first lesson, I watched Tatiana work. I admire her endurance, tact, observation and professionalism. Knowledge multiplied by experience = wisdom, and this is exactly what she is about. And one more thing: rarely do people shift the focus from themselves. Tanya is the opposite, she talks very little about herself, but she is fully involved in each listener, and she does it with great warmth. She has become an example of a real Psychologist for me. Thank you for that.
Halyna Havryliuk
This is the first time I have seen a large amount of professional information so skillfully selected and organized into a clear and easy-to-understand presentation. The visual content of the course is a special delight, a separate aesthetic pleasure. Tatiana is a person who is infinitely in love with her work, and this is felt in the style of information presentation, in the pedagogical tact, in the maximum inclusion in the group, and in the safe atmosphere. I have never met so much wisdom, depth and warmth in any course.
Natalia Ishkova
Gestalt therapist, transaction analyst, media expert, mediator
I would like to say thanks to both myself and Tatiana. I thank Tatiana for her support, her simple explanations of deep meanings and her generosity during “War Won’t Write It Off. 2.0” Now I am going to understand other people traumatized by war even better. I thank myself for following my curiosity. This became the correct decision taken in advance, to be able to take care of myself and my heart. To become a supporting link in the chain of people who came back form combat, and to become a bridge between life and death. To breathe and live on.
Yulia Shkolnikova
psychologist, trauma pedagogue
There is professional training that becomes your foundation for many years to come. This course became one of those cases. It happened in the right place and at the right time. Tatiana delivers information in a skillful, structural, tactful, and caring way. She transforms it into a huge resource, a treasury of knowledge. Besides, she is an extremely sensitive person so in her field you discover the themes of your personal therapy and new interests for professional development. Yes, the war really “won’t write anything off” but after this course we’ll surely remain humans. A great heartfelt thank you.
Tatyana Bondarenko
psychologist, osteopath
Even the course title “War Won’t Write It Off” has its depth. I was immersed in the structured presentation of material, valuable information, and well-designed slides. Besides, I was flabbergasted by Tatiana’s industriousness, the way she led the course and the ambience of trust and mutual understanding she created among the participants. We shared books and films, our practical developments and warmth of our hearts. This magic of communication touched everyone. I am looking forward to new courses and meetings with colleagues.
Oleksandra Gryshyna
professional athlete, master of sports in triathlon and swimming, physiotherapist
This is not the kind of training you immediately forget. You have to think, analyze and use study material for your own therapy. For me, each lecture day was a separate life. You start in the morning as a regular person, and you finish as a different one in the evening. And then you digest what you received during the week, rewatching the lectures and arranging them in your head.
I came to the course as a girlfriend of a military man, with a wish to improve our contact and acquire the skill of ecological communication with my beloved warrior and the military in general as I actively communicate with them. I purchased the course three months before the start and was worried that it would be too much as I don’t have a degree in psychology. But I shouldn’t have worried: for me, Tatiana became a teacher from an ideal Universe, with understandable slides. So the knowledge got arranged in my head as puzzle pieces to one big picture.
Yelena Alfyorova
psychologist, psychotherapist working with addictions
“Peace in the midst of the war” – this is how I would describe “War Won’t Write It Off”. I came to this course for two reasons: 1) incredibly vivid personality of teacher Tatiana, her sense of humor, professionalism and tact; 2) the wish to understand war-induced traumas.
All summer I’ve been immersing in myself and knowledge. This was a world parallel to the war and at the same time inseparable from it. I’ll remember interesting, varied and unforgettable meetings at each module for a long time. I am also grateful to everyone in our intervision group for safety, acceptance, support, and closeness.
Tatyana Lupina
I was delighted starting from the very first lecture which Tatiana began with the structure of the brain and how trauma emerges first in the mind and only then in the body. I am grateful for deep knowledge, interesting approach, and wide outlook, for warmth, beautiful and clear metaphors, and efficient structure for complex material. The intervision group was useful because it showed the vectors I’d like to work with in the future. A separate word of admiration goes to the way Tatiana remembered, tolerated and supported everyone. Thank you.
Roman Rozhdestvensky
existential psychologist
At “War Won’t Write It Off” I felt like a hammerhead shark barraging over the sandy bottom in anticipation of prey, the most valuable knowledge. I also felt like a gudgeon, awed and delighted with possible immersion by this knowledge. And I felt like an ocean containing it all.
I am still in the process of mind-mapping but thanks to the course many things have cleared up. This knowledge will undoubtedly change me. And Tatiana is a unique personality who has influenced my world outlook, and few people manage to do that.
Inna Ovchinnikova
I am a wife of a military and a budding psychologist. I went to “War Won’t Write It Off” because I read Tatiana’s post on her Telegram channel “War Psychotrauma” through which I felt her experience. The block on military psychology gave me knowledge, understanding of my husband’s state and strength to withstand this trial. As for the clinical module, I have already had a course in clinical psychology with lots of material but instead a lack of structure. And finally I have that. The third block about transgenerational trauma transformed personal aspects of my life and helped to survive the loss of my mother which happened right during the course.
I am grateful for the presentation of material, lots of examples from Tatiana’s practice and her personal intent that the participants understand everything. All this made the course complete, and the puzzle has transformed into a picture.
I came to this course for personal development as I believe that we should understand the psychological context of the war and its consequences on all levels, including clinical (psychiatric) and intergenerational. Intuitively I understood the extent of misery we are in but now I have a clearer picture of what is happening. I can’t say that I am having it easy with the course because I am not a psychologist and many topics are new for me, e.g., about the structure of the brain. That is why I take notes. I mark topics which hit especially close to home – it is very valuable that Tatiana shares books. A special word of gratitude goes for cases because they have a lot of life experience and understanding how all this happens in reality.
Maria Berestneva
Psychologist, psychotherapist
I express my gratitude and admiration with teaching and course content. All complicated things have been presented in a very accessible and open way. No words left to praise this endless gratitude for materials and consultations! I study a lot, like all of us, I become finicky when I don’t like it, the material doesn’t work with me, the teacher isn’t professional enough or there is little information and it is too “simple”. Sometimes I quit courses too. But at this course I was looking forward to each Sunday. In the evening, each time I felt very tired but this was a feeling of good satiation. This is the best motivation to keep going and to go deeper. Thank you!
Catherine Gurina
Psychologist, psychotherapist
The slides are gorgeous. The work is huge. The information is presented in a succinct and clear way. I have not regretted for a second that I bought the course, and I recommend it to my colleagues. I listen, watch, savor and immediately put it into practice. I have enjoyed it a lot.
Ekaterina Koropachinskaya
Coach and psychologist at Anna Valensa Center
Thank you, Tatiana, for creating such a lively space where you feel professional, confident, united and supported. Special thanks for taking care of the visuals for the course. I am a person who needs to see things with my own eyes to remember them, so this aspect of your lectures is very important to me.
Yelena Voronova
Family psychologist
The peculiarity of the course ntervision group – I was on my territory: understanding, support, and tremendous attention to the cases. Presentations with a cinematic effect, as if watching a movie. It begins in the depths of the brain and ends on a political map of the world with an overview of mental processes superimposed on the experiences of war participants and witnesses. To give such a huge field in 3 months is a talent of a specialist and an artist at the same time.
Irene Kuznetsova
Human Resources Administrator, Pixela Labs
Thank you for such necessary and useful knowledge. I have read a lot of books and knew a lot. But only during the course it all settled down so beautifully in my head. Just like Tatiana said at the lecture: “Take it out, clean, sort and put it back into your head neatly folded.” Thank you.
Anna Tokranovs
Psychologist
I am at the beginning of my professional journey, and it was important to get into the circle of experienced specialists to feel “at ease”. After each lecture, I felt tired, and then immediately the rush of energy. I gained a lot of knowledge and heard a lot of profound stories. I greatly desire to keep growing as a professional and increase my qualifications. Tatiana digs deep into her lectures and supervisions, I admire her curiosity and energy.
Natalia Dankovich
Teacher, psychotherapist
It is an amazing skill to speak simply, clearly and at the same time profoundly about the difficult things we all experience in this war every second and in real time, to meticulously structure the material in a certain sequence so that it stays with you forever. To touch very gently and carefully, to be half a step, a millimeter away – and yet to be able not to be traumatized by the poignancy and painfulness of the topics and questions. To give incredible therapeutic volume and at the same time depth, historical references, to recommend and lay out a huge amount of literature, to create a space and channel for supervision and analysis of clients’ cases.
Julia Denisenko
Psychologist, circuit therapist
Thank you very much for the structure, system, and excellent presentation of the material, and especially for the illustrations (slides). There were lots of important insights. Thank you for the opportunity to learn at this time and to be a part of the team.
Natalia Dankovich
Teacher, psychotherapist
I am a teacher myself and I appreciate good presentations, but the last thing I expected was beautiful and impressive slides because usually depth does not go hand in hand with aesthetics. But Tatiana’s images and metaphors remain in memory for a long time, or rather forever: sunflowers by Van Gogh, still life with tangerines, chest with a needle, amazing poppies as a symbol of war and its trauma.
Oksana Eremenko
Psychologist, system coach
With this course, it’s like I’m a student again and Irediscovering a lot of things, plus a lot has changed, like the ICD… Like life itself, like the war, everything has changed. At the university, we did not have much war psychology, and not so long ago I heard the term “transgenerational trauma” for the first time. That is why I benefited a great, great deal.
Viktoriya Tsurkan
Psychologist specializing in psychoanalysis
The course is excellent! I am very grateful for the approach used to present information: detailed and structured, with many examples and practical cases. The sections on brain structure, mutually dependent functioning of amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus and PFC, and hormonal metabolism were especially valuable for me, as well as the analysis of trauma types and ways of working with them. The discussions of violence and murder from a psychoanalytical point of view are also very valuable. And Tatiana is very open and humane, without much too didactic and hierarchical approach we encounter so often.
Yelena Voronova
Family psychologist
The course “Psychotrauma of war” is a large, systematic, and careful revision of my and my family’s hidden personal and generational traumas. This is an understanding of who I am, and what the chances are of maintaining my stability. It became easier to work with family systems, there were flags on family history charts. It became easier to build protocols and steps in attachment stories in working with couples. Rethinking complex emotions and the importance of a person adapting to the difficulties of experience, especially childhood.
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
Examples of course slides
Some people perceive information visually better than they do audially. If you are one of them, it will be easier and more enjoyable for you to absorb complex content through a specially designed presentation of the material.
The total number of slides in the course is ~1000, 120 to 150 per webinar day.
