Content note: This edition focuses on ritual abuse, mind control, and organised abuse. Please exercise self-care – especially if you are a survivor. To survivors reading this bit: I hold you in huge warmth, respect and care. I don’t know nearly as much about ritual abuse (or, as Valerie Sinason has called it, “calendar abuse,” […]
I was inspired by the recent McMaugh and colleagues (2024) article on working with continuing incestuous abuse to look for more research into best practice when working with survivors who are still being accessed by their perpetrators. Unfortunately, I found very little recent research in this area, which I suppose testifies to the bravery of […]
The March, 2024 Publications of Interest column presents six articles which focus on how minority stress and systemic discrimination can compound traumatic experiences. I hope they will be of some interest. Ragavan, M. I., Thomas, K. A., Fulambarker, A., Zaricor, J., Goodman, L. A., & Bair-Merritt, M. H. (2020). Exploring the needs and lived experiences […]
Publications of Interest is our quarterly column where we present a summary of recent articles on a topic of interest to our members. This quarter we have a new volunteer coordinator of this column, Charlotte Creasey. We welcome Charlotte (pictured below). Charlotte is a student member, and when asked to introduce herself had the following […]
This month in our quarterly column, Publications of Interest (POI), we are bringing you a selection of articles which explore dissociation among youth in out of home care/foster care. Youth in foster care or exiting foster care commonly report an extensive history of early abuse and neglect, re-abuse within foster care, and repeated cycles of […]
This month in our quarterly column, Publications of Interest, we are bringing you a selection of articles which explore the concept of moral injury, including within health professionals. As usual we have tried to find some articles that are Open Access, or are available to members through our Journal of Trauma & Dissociation. We hope […]
This month in our quarterly column, Publications of Interest, we are bringing you a selection of recently published articles that are all Open Access. We hope you enjoy catching up on some professional reading! Dorahy, M.J., Kumar Yogeeswaran, K. & Middleton, W. (2023). Dissociation-Induced Shame in Those with a Dissociative Disorder: Assessing the Impact of […]
In recent years there has been growing recognition of the impact of birth trauma on women, their partners and their children. While older research focused on many aspects of birth trauma, such as complications, injury or loss of a baby, the most recent literature has had a particular focus on obstetric violence – the mistreatment […]
Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: Past, Present, Future – An interview with the Editors Something exciting for our field has been quietly brewing over the last four years. The book-lovers and nerds among us will be delighted to hear that one of the most important books for our field, and one of the largest, is […]
ALL ARTICLES ARE OPEN ACCESS The topic of ISSTD’s June 2022 publications of interests includes recent (2021 or later) and compelling open access articles that relate to the study of trauma and dissociation. Our aim this month is to provide articles that all our members can access and utilize to inform their practice and educate clients. Oprel, D. A. […]
