PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS Emily Aber Pamela Alexander Dorothy Ashman Amy Champoux Elaine Ducharme Catherine Egan Beth Ehrisman Rebecca Goldberg Sarah Heil-Brenny Jeffrey Hill Lori Hollingsworth Colin Howard Gina Manlove Jacquelyn McDonald Tracy Muklewicz Georgian Mustata Linda Naef Diana Newberry Sherri Paulson Sarah Schlote Meg Waurick Susan Wulff EMERGING PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS Michelle Brilee Courtenay M Crucil STUDENT […]
Kid's Korner
“As a criminologist studying child sexual abuse, I sometimes feel like I live in the ‘upside down’.”
As a criminologist studying organised child sexual abuse, I sometimes feel like I live in the ‘upside down’, the shadow world parallel to our own in the TV series Stranger Things. In the TV series, the ‘upside down’ looks like our own world, but darker and filled with unpredictable terror. Kids disappear into it sometimes, […]
Creative Space
Creative Space: A Place for our Creative Selves
I welcome you to this new part of our newsletter – a creative inclusion to act as an interlude perhaps, a breathing space to share the creations of our imagination – retrieving the light within the dark unconscious creative self, for the sharing makes it brighter. To express ourselves in ways that defy rational appraisal […]
2018 Annual Conference
Annual Conference Highlights: ASCH Pre-Conference Training
By Reinhild Draeger-Muenke, PsyD, ASCH Trainer The ASCH (American Society of Clinical Hypnosis) approved 20- hour training in clinical hypnosis has by now become a regular and expected feature at the ISSTD annual meeting. Several fundamental and intermediate trainings have been offered in the form of 3-day pre-conference workshops at the past several annual meetings, […]
Focus on ISSTD History
Reminiscence from the UK: 30 years on
ISSTD in the UK: A History My interest in Trauma and Dissociation began more than 33 years ago. Like most people I did not seek it out. I had a client whom I knew was quite complex and I had engaged a very experienced supervisor because of this. One night, in supervision, he suggested my […]
Community Spotlight
Child and Adolescent Special Interest Group
The Child and Adolescent Special Interest Group (C&A SIG) was formed several years ago by a group of ISSTD members who work with children and adolescents. The C&A SIG grew since its conception, and currently includes over 60 members who work with traumatized and dissociative children and adolescents all around the world. An email list-serve […]
Community Spotlight
Child and Adolescent Committee
The ISSTD Child & Adolescent Committee, which is currently chaired by Fran Waters and Na’ama Yehuda, began as a taskforce led by Fran Waters and Joy Silberg, and became a committee as the awareness of the importance and relevance of childhood dissociation to the field became evident. Committee members hail from four continents and membership […]
Clinical E-Journal
JTD and Frontiers Table of Contents (April 2018)
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation Check out the entire library online of the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation – your member benefit – now! Table of Contents Volume 19, Issue 1 Volume 19, Issue 2 Volume 19, Issue 3 Volume 19, Issue 4 Volume 18, Issue 5 Are you interested in auto publication alerts? To set up a […]
Community Spotlight
ISSTD Scientific Committee
The ISSTD Scientific Committee was formed in 2012. The larger ISSTD Scientific Advisory Board was also formed to support the Scientific Committee during that same year. By way of some history – a precursor of this Committee was the former Internationalization Committee. Several members of this Committee joined the Scientific Committee or the Advisory Board. […]
Annual Awards
ISSTD Media (Written) Award Goes to Ground-Breaking Enquiry into Child Abuse
In a recent article published in the ISSTD News (see below), details were given about the 2018 ISSTD Media Written Award going to the six Australian Royal Commissioners for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. An opportunity arose for the ISSTD to publicly present Commissioner Atkinson with his award at a […]