By Christa Kruger, MBBCh, MMed(Psych), FCPsych(SA), MD Dear fellow ISSTD Members, I hope you are healthy and safe, and coping. Even in these difficult times, all clinicians still need their continuing education credits. ISSTD makes this easy by offering a very wide range of virtual educational opportunities in the upcoming months. There will be more […]
Poetry in the News & the News in Poetry ISSTD Member Phyllis Klein has cleverly constructed her poetry collection to resemble the sections of a newspaper. The content too deals with contemporary issues we read of in the news. As the foreword states: ‘Reading the news is complicated. Sometimes if hurts. It can bring up […]
1.Your refugee heartwaits, displaced heartsqueezed into a suitcase,hides under the mattress. Your exiled hands fold,anticipate the momentof escape, salvation to show updown the road. Your foreignfeet take you in that direction,carry away your refugee heart,your exiled hands, your immigranteyes looking for anything familiaron the way to the new place.The fields you walk, ruined. Your wanderer’s […]
Obituaries usually begin by noting the personal, academic and professional accomplishments the deceased accumulated during their life time. Philip accumulated many. But I believe the Phillip I knew would be happier with also being remembered in a somewhat more personal manner. Philip was a deeply passionate man. He was passionate about ideas, good fiction, poetry, […]
The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is thrilled to announce the launch of our new EMDR Therapy Training, which is offered through ISSTD’s Center for Advanced Studies in Trauma and Dissociation. It has been approved by the ISSTD Board of Directors, developed by ISSTD members, accredited by the EMDR International Association […]
The ISSTD Scientific Committee was established in 2012. After accumulated experience of working together over years, the composition of the Committee has been revised this year to include clinicians and theoreticians, alongside researchers. The Committee is currently working on a Strategic Plan for the upcoming years. Although the plan has not been finalized yet, presenting […]
In less than two weeks, ISSTD is headed to San Francisco, CA for the 37th Annual International Conference, The World Congress on Complex Trauma and Dissociation 2020: Envisioning the Coming Decade. Featuring plenary speakers Karlen Lyons-Ruth, PhD, Pat Ogden, PhD, and A.A.T. Simone Reinders, PhD, and with ten exciting Pre-Conference Workshops, this conference is already […]
By Warwick, President, ISSTD A lot is happening in our Society. The ISSTD is about to launch its Clinical E-Journal, “Frontiers in the Psychotherapy of Trauma and Dissociation”, edited by Andreas Laddis and Steve Frankel. (Prof Martin Dorahy has chaired the E-Journal Task Force that has initially steered this development.) The ISSTD Regional Seminar, “Treating […]
