The Impact of Great Wars and Beyond Medical and Military

The Impact of Great Wars and Beyond
Medical and Military Psychotraumatology: Past, Present and Future
Internationaal symposium donderdag 22 mei 2014
Sprekers
Dr. Leo van Bergen
Leo van Bergen (Venlo, 1959) studied history in Nijmegen and specialized in medical history. His main
research field was the relationship between war and medicine, mostly focusing on Wold War I.
Besides numerous articles on the subject he published Before my Helpless Sight. Suffering Dying and
military medicine on the Western front 1914-1918 (Ashgate Publishing 2009). Van Bergen now works
at the KITLV-Leiden, writing a book on leprosy in the Dutch-East Indies.
Prof.dr.em. Berthold Gersons
Berthold Gersons (1945) is a psychiatrist, emeritus distinguished AMC-professor and professor of
psychiatry at the Academical Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and
currently senior scientific advisor of Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group. In 1980 he started research on
trauma and PTSD in the police force and he established the first self-help-team in Dutch police force.
He developed the ‘Brief Eclectic Psychotherapy for PTSD’ (BEPP). BEPP has been recognized in the
NICE Guidelines (2005). He has been advisor for the Dutch Government after major disasters in the
Netherlands, like the El Al air crash in 1992 and the Enschede firework disaster in 2000. He has been
a member of the Board of the Dutch Veterans Institute and was an advisor for the Ministry of Defense
to develop a blueprint for military mental health. He is adviser to the National Coordinator for
Counterterrorism to help politicians under threat to cope with protection. In 2013 he also presented a
Blueprint on Mental Health Care for the Police to the Minister of Justice in the Netherlands. He has
been member of the board of the Journal of Traumatic Stress, of the Board of the ISTSS and ESTSS.
He has been president of the European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies.
Bgen-arts Johan de Graaf
Dr. Frank Hermans
Frank Hermans. Independently working sociologist. Expertise: resilience of societies in long term
perspective; history of psychotraumatology. Latest book (2014): Vulnerability, resilience and
civilization. How people have managed to protect themselves against shocking events and to be more
sensitive to the pain of others.
Dr. Adriaan Hopperus Buma
Col Rakesh Jetly
Canadian Armed Forces
Dr. Harm Krugers
Dr. Samuël Kruizinga
Samuël Kruizinga (1980) studeerde geschiedenis in Leiden, Parijs en Oxford. In 2011 promoveerde hij
aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam op een proefschrift over de Nederlandse oorlogseconomie in de
periode 1914-1918. Na als onderzoeksfellow verbonden te zijn geweest aan Het Scheepvaartmuseum
is hij sinds 2012 universitair docent nieuwste geschiedenis bij de Universiteit van Amsterdam en sinds
2013 gastonderzoeker bij het NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies. Hij
publiceerde eerder o.a. Caught in the middle. Neutrals, neutrality, and the First World War (2011, met
Johan den Hertog) en Overlegeconomie in oorlogstijd. De Nederlandsche Overzee Trustmaatschappij
en de Eerste Wereldoorlog (2012).
Prof.dr. Alexander McFarlane
Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies, Professor of Psychiatry University of Adelaide.
Dr. kol-arts Agali Mert
Prof.dr. Miranda Olff
Miranda Olff currently is head of the Center for Psychological Trauma at the department of Psychiatry
at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam and professor at the Arq
Psychotrauma Expert Group. Miranda Olff has a visiting professorship in Norway. She is the
president-elect of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), past president of the
European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS) and editor-in-chief of the European Journal
of Psychotraumatology (EJPT).
Dr. Ingrid Philippens
Maj. Erik de Soir
Prof.dr. David Spiegel

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