By Kate McMaugh, Editor ISSTD News

ISSTD’s most recent Past President Lisa Danylchuk has been very busy developing a podcast focusing on how we can heal from trauma, both individually and collectively. The Podcast, now in its third season, is a treasure trove of wisdom, wrapped up in warm conversation. The guest list is unbelievable and includes many ISSTD Members. Recent […]

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Kate McMaugh, Editor ISSTD News

ISSTD Member Noula Diamantopoulos has been named Silver Award winner of the 2023 Women Changing the World Awards – People’s Choice for Health & Wellbeing The Women Changing the World Awards are international awards which celebrate and recognize women achieving outstanding success in a wide variety of fields including sustainability, humanitarian work, leadership, advocacy, education, […]

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Kate McMaugh, Editor ISSTD News

IFS for Trauma and Dissociation ISSTD Member, Joanne Twombly has written a new book about the use of IFS in the treatment of trauma and Dissociation. Published in January,  Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems: How to Successfully Treat C-PTSD, and Dissociative Disorders is available in paperback and kindle versions. Readers will learn in-depth […]

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Kate McMaugh, Editor, ISSTD News

ISSTD Member Lindsay Schofield, author of the books Our House, Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder, A Guidebook for Survivors and Practitioners has generously arranged for ISSTD Members to have a 25% discount on her books. She has done this as a way of marking DID Awareness Day on 5th […]

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Kate McMaugh, Editor, ISSTD News

ISSTD Member Lynn Crook has written a much-anticipated book on the false memory movement: False Memories: The Deception that Silenced Millions. The book opens with a personal account from Crook, about her own experience of recalling memories of sexual abuse at the hands of her father and then successfully suing her parents for damages. While […]

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By Kate McMaugh, Editor ISSTD News

ISSTD Member Michele Yarberry has written a new children’s book, Tandi’s Brave Friends and Special Helpers targeted at children and their parents who have experienced trauma and dissociation. Tandi’s Brave Friends and Special Helpers is intended to help parents, caregivers, and professionals who work with children better understand perplexing behaviors and discover the missing links […]

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Kate McMaugh, Editor, ISSTD News

ISSTD Fellow Valerie Sinason is well known to us for her work in treating traumatised and dissociative individuals, as well as her work treating people with intellectual disability. Valerie was the Founder Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies until December 2016 when she retired from long-term clinical work. Although she continues with writing, supervision […]

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By Kate McMaugh, Editor ISSTD News

Do you have clients that forget their ‘homework’? Forget the entire session? Do you have clients who earnestly take notes in therapy, or collect your handouts, only to lose them somewhere that week? If so, ISSTD Member Dr Neva Shebini, Consultant Psychiatrist, has developed a therapy journal that may offer your clients a solution. My […]

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New Book: A Landmark Text for the Dissociative Disorders Field This month our field welcomes the publication of a new book, Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: Past, Present, Future. The book, edited by leading thinkers in our field, Prof Martin Dorahy, Prof Steven Gold, and Dr John O’Neil, is a worthy successor to the well-known […]

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