ISSTD is offering a sale to ring in the new year! Now through Monday, January 10 you can receive 22% off all recorded content in ISSTD’s new Online Learning Center! Please note that this discount does not apply to the 2022 webinar pass, Certificate Program Bundles, or any live courses. ISSTD’s new Online Learning Center features over 400 […]
Volunteer Spotlight
Thanking Our Volunteers of 2021
Dear ISSTD Members, We, as members of the ISSTD, operate in a world that is filled with the knowledge that infant and childhood torture is a fairly common experience. Our days are filled with the most horrific stories and from the most symptomatic human beings. Often, we do this in isolation; and this includes emotional, […]
In Memoriam
Honoring Members Lost in 2021
While 2021 brought myriad challenges individually and organizationally it also saw the loss of some incredible contributors to the field and to ISSTD. Below we honor these individuals as contributed by ISSTD Members. Gary Peterson, MD 1945-2021 After a prolonged illness, Dr. Gary Peterson lost the battle with idiopathic pulmonary disease on September 9, 2021 […]
Webinars
ISSTD Webinar Committee
The ISSTD Webinar Committee, since inception has been very ably chaired by Marilyn Korzekwa. As of the beginning of 2022 she has passed the baton to Sara Rourke and Warwick Middleton, who will act as co-chairs going forward. Kelly Rich, from our ISSTD Headquarters staff is the point person for matters involving the Webinar program. […]
Virtual Book Club
Virtual Book Club in 2022
The VBC is transitioning recently as one of our moderators, Joan Haliburn MD, is retiring, and we welcome Nicole Black to our team. We are also endeavoring to plan our discussions as much as we can before the beginning of each calendar year so that all of you can plan ahead as well. Each year […]
Publications of Interest
MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for the Treatment of PTSD
The topic of December 2021’s publications of interests is MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of PTSD. A common initial response to the testing of MDMA use in psychotherapy was one of skepticism – understandable in the historical context of LSD misuse and abuse by researchers in the 1960’s. However, recent phase III clinical trials with […]
Organizational Updates
Welcome to Our Newly Elected Officers and Board Members!
Thank you all for participating in the ISSTD 2022 Board of Directors Elections! Below are our newly elected officers and Board Members and their candidate statement. We look forward to working with them as we head into 2022 and beyond! Thank you for everyone who put forward their candidacy and participated in the nominations and […]
Special Interest Groups
ISSTD Welcomes the Formation of New EMDR SIG
A new SIG was formed in October 2021 for ISSTD members with interest in utilizing EMDR therapy in the treatment of complex trauma, dissociation, and dissociative disorders. The SIG was formed with 130 members and an executive committee of Adithy and Liz Chalenburg as Co-Chairs; Abigail Percifield as Secretary; and Jillian Hosey as Moderator. The […]
Regional Conferences
ISSTD Holds Its First Asia-Pacific Conference
ISSTD had to postpone its planned in-person Australia-New Zealand Regional Conference, which was to be held in Melbourne in 2021, due to COVID. Not to be deterred, the Conference Committee channeled its energy to organizing ISSTD’s first ever Asia-Pacific Conference, held virtually in November 2021. With the support of ISSTD Staff and the Board, they […]
Letter From The President
Prenatal Therapy: A Preventive Olive Branch to Womb Babies & Infants
At the beginning of 2021 Ericha Hitchcock Scott and I agreed that November would be a wonderful month to collaborate and write about Prenatal Gratitude. This month we want to celebrate conception and the commencement of one’s life with all of you. While I will briefly discuss the significance and implications of prenatal psychotherapy and […]