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PSYCHIATRIST SPECIALISING IN ADDICTION, TRAUMA AND TREATMENT-RESISTANCE

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My Approach to Mental Health


DR. ELI KOTLER

As a psychiatrist, I specialise in addictions and trauma. Working primarily as a
clinician, I learn best through experiences with my patients. I use a
neuro-psychoanalytic frame to assist my patients gain healing through insights,
the therapeutic relationship and connecting their head and heart. 

XX YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

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DEFINING SUCCESS

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

I have had the opportunity to speak with many different people and groups. I
speak regularly at conferences, have given a number of keynote talks, and have
helped organise national conferences.

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CLINICAL ASSESSMENTS

Whilst I do not have time available to see new patients on an ongoing basis, I
am happy and interested to perform assessments on people suffering with
addictions or treatment resistant mood, anxiety and ‘personality’ disorders.

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MEDICO-LEGAL WORK

As an appointed Panellist for the Medical Panels of Victoria, and a regular
independent examiner for WorkSafe Victoria, I have extensive experience with
medico-legal assessments for a range of clients.

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TRAUMA

Difficult experiences occur all the time. Some difficult experiences can be
fully processed and integrated by our minds, while some difficult experiences
cannot. In these cases, the brain creates splits between our conscious minds,
with aspects of the experience removed or altered from our consciousness.  These
split off aspects of our psyches can create unhealthy patterns within the
personality.  These patterns are not stored in the conscious parts of our minds,
rather the nondeclarative memory systems, hence why they are difficult to spot
and quantify. Moreso, rationalisations keep them hidden. The patterns created by
trauma are the categorical diagnoses we have in the DSM/ICD, such as
‘personality disorders’ and addictions. 

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EMOTIONS

Eli uses affective neuroscience as a model to understand emotions and feelings
within the framework of our emotional systems. Emotional systems are our brain’s
need and survival systems, and inform us whether our needs are being met through
positive or negative feelings. Every feeling can be defined by a certain quality
– i.e. what the need is, is it positive or negative, or the degree that need is,
or isn’t being met.

Every human and mammal has 7 basic emotional needs, and we learn how to meet
these needs automatically through feelings, which is a process called
conditioning. However, if our needs are not met, there’s a chance of developing
unresolved negative feelings as well as emotional and behavioural conflicts
which will need to be resolved eventually. Addictions hijack the brain’s
emotional circuits, and ‘short-circuit’, or ‘trick’ us into feeling that a need
has been met, when in reality it has not, leaving us empty and longing for more
once the ‘high’ is over.

‘Hungry Ghosts’ (Gabor Mate) are an example of this.

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ADDICTION

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 * Brief overview of the history of the science of addictions (pleasure
   circuits, dopamine, medical model, learning model, trauma model)
 * Addictions are the minds way of dealing with unresolved emotional issues and
   conflicts, including trauma.
 * Substance and alcohol addictions hijack the brains emotional circuits
 * A solution to a forgotten problem

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PSYCHEDELICS

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 * What are psychedelics
 * Why they may help heal addictions
 * Current state of research
 * Current legal status in Australia

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NEUROPSYCHOANALYSIS

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 * Limitations of traditional scientific approaches (behavioural and cognitive)
 * Benefits of combining neuroscience with depth-psychology
 * Outline of
   * Panksepp’s affective neuroscience
   * Friston’s Free Energy Principle
   * Psychoanalysis

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INSIGHTS

EMOTIONS & FEELINGS

"It was no less a scientist than Charles Darwin who demonstrated the
consequences and the human tragedy of a purely scientific, alienated intellect.
He writes... 'My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding
general laws out of large collections of fact... the loss... is a loss of
happiness... by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature'". To have or to
be?1976.

— Erich Fromm

SELF-AWARENESS

Self-awareness is "...both an intellectual and an emotional experience... it
means gaining information about ourselves which we feel in our 'guts'".
Self-analysis, 1968.

— Karen Horney

TRAUMA

“...everything that touches this complex, however slightly, excites a vehement
reaction, a regular emotional explosion. Hence one could easily represent the
trauma as a complex with a high emotional charge.” 1966, page 130, paragraph
262. The therapeutic value of abreaction. Original 1921.

— Carl Jung

ADDICTION

“Addiction… is a substitute and replacement not only for general mastery of the
object world, but specifically for the attainment of a secure love-object”

— Panksepp, Solms, Pantelis

TREATMENT-RESISTANCE

"Depression consists of a denial of one's own emotional reactions. This denial
begins in the service of an absolutely essential adaptation during
childhood...". The Drama of the Gifted Child. The Search for the True Sel, 1981.

— Alice Miller

PSYCHEDELICS

"Psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry
what the microscope is for biology and medicine or the telescope is for
astronomy" LSD Psychotherapy. 1980/2001.

— Stan Groff

NEUROPSYCHOANALYSIS

Psychoanalysis is "is in essence a cure through love... it is transference that
provides the strongest proof, the only unassailable one, for the relationship of
neuroses to love." (Sigmund Freud Life and Work. Vol 2. 1955. E. Jones. In a
letter to Carl Jung).




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