Dear ISSTD Colleagues, It is with sadness that I communicate to you that Thérèse Clemens, CAE, our beloved Executive Director, has tended her resignation to AMG, the management firm we utilise to assist in running the ISSTD. She will start in a senior role in another management firm closer to her home which gives her […]
The ISSTD exists to better understand those with dissociative disorders and complex trauma and it naturally has an interest in all forms of psychological trauma. It provides guidelines, training, accessible literature, and ongoing professional development for those who work, and do research in our field. Our Society endeavours to make membership of our field career […]
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS Camille Adams Mary Bartell Joanne G Brumm Laura Fontaine Zack Hamingson Terry J. King Reshma Lagomarcino Roseann Lynch Eva J Usadi EMERGING PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS Linda S. Jones Sheila Klein Jessica McDonald Kimberly Turner STUDENT MEMBERS Samantha Burns Jordan E Cart Mae Cheung Julianne Cusick Stephanie Elizabeth Greenwood Sevilla King Jessica Walsh
America’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is currently broadcasting a 10 part series on the Vietnam war, something that is likely to be both validating and triggering for Veterans. ISSTD Members Mike Dadson, PhD and Lynette Danylchuk, PhD, who have both worked with Vietnam Veterans, share with us their thoughts on the impact of this major […]
TOP DD Publishes Three Free Access Papers The TOP DD team is pleased to announce that, in the current issue of the European Journal of Psychotraumatology, they have 3 publications based on the TOP DD study. These articles are: Myrick, Webermann, Loewenstein, Lanius, Putnam and Brand (2017) Six-year follow-up of the treatment of patients with […]
How to submit an article to Frontiers Frontiers is here! How did you like it? Steve Frankel and I, Co-Editors of Frontiers in the Psychotherapy of Trauma and Dissociation, welcome your comments, judgments and suggestions. You may send them to drpsylex@gmail.com or aladdis@gmail.com. Invitation to submit articles We are eager to host articles from ISSTD […]
The ISSTD Membership Committee is co-chaired by Warwick Middleton and Adah Sachs. The Membership Committee’s primary roles are to develop and sustain membership in ISSTD, to assist colleagues in finding their way to membership of the ISSTD, and once they are members to assist them in identifying solid reasons for maintaining their membership. The Committee […]
The Denver Regional Conference, held on 8 September, was well-attended by an enthusiastic group of professionals who spanned all disciplines. Steve Frankel, ISSTD’s resident attorney and clinical psychologist, spent the morning speaking about his core concepts of treating complex trauma and dissociative disorders, relating DID organization to the Warsaw Ghetto. His many examples and lively […]
In the following commentary, Deirdre Kramer offers a fascinating account of Sally McCollum’s compelling narrative approach to the healing of multigenerational dissociation. Noting that intergenerational transmission of trauma `features significantly in the therapy room’, and referencing the themes of betrayal blindness, reenactment, and revictimization, Deirdre discusses McCollum’s powerful work with the great grand-daughter of the […]
Tell us a bit about yourself I am a licensed clinical social worker and a board-certified, registered art therapist in private practice in Alexandria VA. My interest in working with people affected by trauma has its roots in my art therapy training some 35 years ago. Back then we didn’t talk about “trauma” the way […]
