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. […]
Letter From The President
Look for Your Community of Helpers
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. […]
News You Can Use
News You Can Use
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 […]
Online Learning Center
New Recorded Content Available!
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 […]
Annual Conference
Last Chance to Register at Regular Rates for ISSTD 2022 Annual Conference!
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 […]
Volunteer Opportunity Spotlight
Volunteer Opportunity Spotlight – Membership Committee Seeking New Members
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 […]
Creative Space
Poet’s Corner at the Asia-Pacific Conference: Part II
This month we continue with publishing the poetry that was performed by ISSTD’s Poet’s Corner at the Asia-Pacific Virtual Conference in November 2021. This is the second group of poetry and contains poems by Jan Ewing, Phyliss Klein, Valerie Sinason and Colin Ross. I hope you enjoy reading this collection from such esteemed members and […]
Clinical Reflections
ISSTD News Seeks Submissions for a New Clinical Reflections Column
ISSTD News is excited to announce the launch of a new feature – Clinical Reflections. Clinical Reflections will be a quarterly feature publishing articles relating to the assessment and treatment of complex trauma and dissociation. We aim to make this column a place where clinicians can write, read, reflect upon, and discuss issues and ideas […]
Collaboration
Call for Proposals Open for Outside Conferences
As part of ISSTD’s 2021-2023 Strategic Plan, we want to support you to spread the knowledge of trauma and dissociation at other conferences! In order to facilitate this goal ISSTD will be periodically sharing information about open call for proposals for submissions at other conferences in the field. Below please find information about submissions that […]
Letter From The President
Stepping Into a New Year
Dear ISSTD Community, As we step into 2022 I’d like to thank you for your continued efforts to contribute to the fields of trauma and dissociation, particularly over the past two years as we have all been faced with the myriad challenges posed by a global pandemic. Thank you for all you do to support […]