ISSTD is pleased to join with CTC Psychological Services for a special conference in the UK at the luxurious Grosvenor Hotel and Spa in the heart of the beautiful and historic city of Chester! The conference will take place June 23-24, 2018, from 9:00AM – 4:30PM. 2018 sees both the 30th anniversary of CTC Psychological […]
Board Briefs
The Latest News From Your Board
The ISSTD Board is a busy group of members who meet every month for 90 minutes, to oversee the activities of the Society and drive many projects to help our Society grow and develop. Here are some of the newest developments. Conferences The Board has been overseeing our growing conference program and planning well-ahead for […]
2018 Annual Conference
Conference Pro Tips: Insider Hacks
Greetings Gentle Reader, In this article, the members of the Conference Committee thought we would share with you some tips and “insider information” that might enhance your time attending our conference. Come early and locate the workshop rooms in the hotel. Orient yourself. Go over the conference program and note the workshops that appeal to […]
Community Spotlight
Virtual Book Club
Our Origins Some years ago our past president Lynette Danylchuk envisioned an online space where ISSTD members of all levels of experience could join prominent authors in our field for discussion of cutting-edge, clinically relevant literature. The idea was brought to life in 2014 with the formation of the Virtual Book Club. What We Do […]
Members Clinical Corner
Commentary on Lisa Butler PhD & Oxana Palesh PhD, `Spellbound: Dissociation in the Movies’, JTD, Vol.5 (2) 2004, pp.61-88.
Dear Fellow ISSTD Members, For this edition of MCC I have taken the liberty, as MCC editor, of contributing a commentary myself. This is largely because despite a few invitations from both myself and ISSTD News Editor Kate McMaugh, few readers have volunteered to contribute a short commentary on a paper of their choice from […]
International Spotlight
The Trauma and Dissociation Field in the UK: Reflections on the Last 3 Decades
(An earlier edition of this article was published in ESTD News, 2016. We thank ESTD for permission to publish this updated version.) Introduction: Background history In 1989 I found myself professionally isolated twice over. Firstly, as a result of being at the centre of the 1987 Cleveland child abuse crisis, in which the medical diagnosis […]
Clinical E-Journal
JTD and Frontiers Table of Contents (February 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 2 Volume 19, Issue 1 Volume 18, Issue 3 Volume 18, Issue 4 Volume 18, Issue 5 Are you interested in auto publication alerts? To set up a […]
Letter From The President
Welcome Home Travelers
Gooood Mornnnning ISSTD! Welcoming in the changes as we move into 2018, I would like to acknowledge all that has been done for us by our former Board members Warwick Middleton, Christa Krüger and Michael Dadson. They leave behind big shoes to fill. Luckily we have a great crop of new Board members in Lisa […]
Trauma & Dissociation in the News
Congratulations to Kathryn Livingston on Winning Prestigious Award
Kathryn Livingston, a long-term member of the ISSTD, has been awarded the prestigious British Empire Medal in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List for her ‘Services to people with dissociative identity disorder and founder of First Person Plural’. This award is for ‘meritorious service worthy of recognition by the Crown’ and is an extremely important […]
News You Can Use
News You Can Use
ISSTD Board Member Wins Award for Research into Organised Abuse Dr Michael Salter, ISSTD Board member and current Chair of the ISSTD Ritual Abuse/Mind Control/Organised Abuse (RAMCOA) Special Interest Group, has been awarded the People’s Choice Award at the annual Research Impact Competition at Western Sydney University, Australia, in 2017. The annual Research Impact Competition […]