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 […]
“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. […]
Dearest ISSTD Community, As our international community confronts the widespread impacts for war, I hope that you and yours are safe and well. While conflict at this level is sure to rouse fear and concern, I encourage you at the same time to look to this growing community of helpers to ground and support you. […]
Trauma Tool Kit online class and book club starting soon! ISSTD Member Susan Pease Banitt will be facilitating a Trauma Tool Kit online class and book club starting Monday, March 7, which will be held across 7 weeks. This class is a great resource for clients and professionals alike to gain tools for healing the […]
New content packages have been opened in the ISSTD Online Learning Center! Read on below for more information on these new pieces of recorded content. Please note that registration for this content is in ISSTD’s new Online Learning Center. If you have not yet created an account on the site you will need to do so […]
ISSTD is thrilled to present the 2022 Annual Conference, Post-Traumatic Growth in a Dissociative World! Featuring plenary speakers Christine Courtois, PhD, ABPP and Julian Ford, PhD, ABPP, Robert T Muller, PhD, and Lauren Lebois, PhD, and with a number of exciting workshops, this conference is already full of fantastic training opportunities. Regular registration rates end […]
This month’s Volunteer Position Spotlight shines on the opportunity to become a Committee Member with the ISSTD Membership Committee! The ISSTD Membership Committee is looking for new members to join the team! The Membership Committee plays a large role in promoting the ISSTD as the foremost place to learn about & study the phenomenology, diagnosis […]
