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Caul Awards
David Caul Graduate Research Fund – Applications Accepted May 2 – June 3, 2022
The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is pleased to announce the David Caul Graduate Research Grant. This grant is designed to support research that is primarily concerned with dissociation or closely related topics. Graduate students (in a Masters, PsyD, or PhD program) and undergraduate honors students are eligible to apply for grants up […]
Letter From The President
The President’s Letter- President’s Updates for the
Photos courtesy of Adithy Dear ISSTD Community, It was wonderful to see so many of you at the Seattle Conference, and to hear your comments coming in from the virtual audience, as well. As we discussed Post-Traumatic Growth in a Dissociative World, the importance of our work as clinicians, researchers, and advocates became increasingly clear […]
Special Interest Groups
Child and Adolescent SIG Update
With April being Child Abuse Prevention Month and the ISSTD’s Child and Youth Month, what better time than to provide an update on the ISSTD’s Child & Adolescent Special Interest Group (SIG)! Currently 37 members strong, members of the Child & Adolescent SIG bring a wealth of knowledge and experience about working with traumatized children […]
Volunteer Spotlight
Volunteer Spotlight: Peter Maves, PhD
In this interview Emily interviews Peter Maves who has been involved for many years as a volunteer in ISSTD. Emily: How did you find out about dissociation? Peter: My first job after I received my Ph.D. was managing a mental health center office. Since I did not know the community well, and since my background included working […]
2022 Annual Conference
Going Hybrid: Looking Back at the 2022 Annual Conference
After a two year hiatus from in-person conferences, ISSTD was thrilled to bring together more than 200 people in Seattle for our first hybrid conference, Post-Traumatic Growth in a Dissociative World. In addition to the 200 in-person attendees, more than 100 people joined the event online from around the world. The conference started on Thursday […]
Community Spotlight
Communications & Marketing Committee Update
The Communications and Marketing Committee aims to promote ISSTD activities and services, both internally and externally. It also has a role in promoting issues relating to complex trauma and dissociation in the wider community, targeting health professionals, other relevant professionals, and the general public. This includes improving the awareness of complex trauma and dissociation in […]
Creative Space
Poet’s Corner at the Asia-Pacific Conference: Part III
As many of you will know by now, ISSTD’s very own poetry group – ‘Poet’s Corner’ provided a fantastic presentation as part of the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference in November 2021. This year, each month in ISSTD News, we have been publishing those poems for your enjoyment. This is the last of that installment, but we […]
Annual Awards
Congratulations to the ISSTD 2022 Annual Award Winners and Fellows!
ISSTD was thrilled to hold our 2022 Annual Award Ceremony at the Annual Conference in Seattle this year! Below are all of this year’s very deserving award winners. Congratulations to all of our winners! Cornelia B Wilbur AwardD. Michael CoyJennifer Madere Frank W Putnam AwardMartin Dorahy (Editor) for Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: Past, Present, […]
Letter From The President
Looking Forward to our Annual Conference
Dear ISSTD Community, As we approach our annual conference, hosted both in Seattle and online this year, I look forward to gathering with like-minded and like-hearted colleagues to learn and work toward healing complex trauma and dissociation together. Our theme this year, “Post-Traumatic Growth in a Dissociative World,” is timely and relevant to the social […]