My Therapeutic Dance I ebb and flow through peek-a-boo’s sweet dare,in fleeting gestures when our life began to dance,what falls away will find its way around. Your smile appears, then hides — now I know it’s still there,ready to revive my heavy heart’s shadowy trance,I ebb and flow through peek-a-boo’s sweet dare. Though fear disrupts, […]
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
JTD Table of Contents – January 2025
Volume 25, Issue 5Volume 25, Issue 4Volume 25, Issue 3Volume 25, Issue 2Volume 25, Issue 1 Volume 24, Issue 5Volume 24, Issue 4Volume 24, Issue 3Volume 24, Issue 2Volume 24, Issue 1 Did you know ISSTD members receive online access to the full JTD? View this video for more instructions on how to access the […]
Letter From The President
2024 Holiday Message
Peter Maves – 2024 ISSTD President As I look back on 2024, I find myself returning to where I started in January, speaking about our Strategic Plan and how much has been accomplished. ISSTD has 35 groups involving committees, special interest groups, and regional online communities, all staffed by volunteers who commit valuable time to […]
News You Can Use
News You Can Use – December 2024
ISSTD Member Dr. Audrey Zatopek wins the ACES’s 2024 Outstanding Dissertation Award The Outstanding Dissertation Award is awarded by the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) in the United States to one exceptional student per year. Dr. Zatopek won this award in 2024 for her dissertation study titled “Discovering Counselor Experiences of Receiving Dissociation […]
Board Briefs
Greetings from the Board of Directors!
We are delighted to bring you this edition of the Board Briefs column in ISSTD News, which provides our members with important updates from the Board of Directors on a quarterly basis. The ISSTD Board of Directors focuses its efforts throughout the year on advancing the Society’s 2024-2026 Strategic Plan. With dedicated working groups focused […]
Committee Update
Webinar Committee Update
The ISSTD Webinar Committee attempts to present up-to-date clinical and research content of relevance to the field of trauma and dissociation, and which is accessible to all ISSTD members. It endeavors to create, in an ongoing way, a rich repository of material that is accessible both as live on-line presentations (into which the viewing audience […]
Committee Update
Virtual Book Club Update
The Virtual Book Club is a free educational forum for all ISSTD members that highlights journal articles and books from mostly current publications in our field, although at times we discuss archival classics as well. We have the unique distinction of including authors in our listserv format discussions, providing everyone the opportunity to ask questions […]
Committee Update
Australia and New Zealand Regional Conference Committee Update
The ISSTD Board and The Australia and New Zealand conference committee are excited to share the latest updates on the next regional conference to be held in Wellington/Poneke, New Zealand, October 31– November 2, 2025. We have the plenaries now confirmed, and they are Christine Courtois, PhD, Julian Ford, PhD, and D. Michael Coy, LICSW. […]
Volunteer Spotlight
Thank You to ISSTD’s 2024 Volunteers
I have written in my President’s column this month about some of the many activities that are flourishing within ISSTD. We provide a wide range of activities, managed by volunteers in unison with our staff. Our volunteers are clinicians and researchers who have high demands on their time in their various fields. I want to […]
2025 Annual Conference
Invited Speakers at 2025 Annual Conference
Every year, the Annual Conference Committee invites a few experts in the field of trauma and dissociation to present workshops or panel discussions at the Annual Conference. For our conference in Boston, Massachusetts in March 2025, in addition to the invited plenary speakers, we have invited presenters offering pre-conference workshops, holding a panel discussion, and […]