Dear ISSTD Community, As we approach our annual conference, hosted both in Seattle and online this year, I look forward to gathering with like-minded and like-hearted colleagues to learn and work toward healing complex trauma and dissociation together. Our theme this year, “Post-Traumatic Growth in a Dissociative World,” is timely and relevant to the social […]
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New Book: Shame, Pride and Relational Trauma ISSTD Member, Ken Benau, has recently published a book Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts and Psychotherapy. This book is a comprehensive overview of the role these complex emotions play in the lives of survivors’relational trauma, as well as within therapy itself. This book aims to assist readers […]
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“He’s not cooperative,” his teacher warned me when I called to find out more about the boy who’d been referred to me for speech-language therapy. “He’ll find a hundred excuses to not do the work.” “Sounds creative,” I interjected. “He is,” the teacher conceded, “but it is exhausting.” For him, too, I was sure. “You’d […]
March 20 is World Poetry Day and this month we bring you a very topical poem by Warwick Middleton, which illustrates the way poetry can be used to explore both past and contemporary traumas. Joseph the priest, Adolf the painter and Vladimir, the spy, Humanity weeps and seeks to question – the how and the why…They […]
Trauma and Dissociation in Seniors The topic of March 2022’s publications of interest is trauma and dissociation in seniors. “Seniors” are generally understood to be age 65 and above, but ranges have been broken down in some studies as follows: 65 and 74 years as youngest-old, ages between 75 and 84 years as middle-old, and […]
This article has been previously published in California Association of Marriage and Family Therapy magazine, The Therapist, and is reprinted here with permission of the authors, Perie Longo, MFT, and Phyllis Klein, LCSW From the beginning of time, poetry has been a means for people to express their deepest emotions and create healing in ritual and ceremony. […]
