Shame and Sexual Violence

About the guest speakers:

Nelleke Nicolai has been a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychoanalyst. She has been a supervisor and lecturer at several training courses on trauma and attachment. Among others, she wrote Empathie (2016), Emotieregulatie, de kunst van het evenwicht (2016) and In levenden lijve: het lichaam in de psychotherapie (2020).

Martine Groen is a clinical psychologist/psychotherapist (non-practising). She has specialised in rumination and family systems. She worked in women’s services and was associated with the police and fire service for ten years. She also worked in former Yugoslavia for ten years. Her most recent publication, Intieme Oorlog, was co-written with Justine van Lawick and is now in its eighth print run.

Liesbeth Vreeburg is a harpist, composer, music theatre maker and performer, active in various musical worlds. She combines developing her own work with playing 18th, 19th and 20th century chamber music. She enjoys working at the intersection of disciplines, where image, sound and word intertwine.

Manon Uphoff  is a writer, screenwriter, and visual artist. Begeerte, her debut, was nominated for the AKO Literature Prize, the Anton Wachter Prize and the ECI Prize. The novel Gemis, nominated for the Libris Literature Prize, was awarded the Rabobank Spring Prize for Literature. Her recently published novel Vallen is als vliegen was widely praised.