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 […]
Community Spotlight
A New Website for ISSTD? Website Committee Update
A year on from taking on responsibility for guiding the ongoing development of ISSTD’s website, and at ISSTD News editor Kate McMaugh’s invitation, I’d like to share with you where the website has been, where it is now, and where it’s going. When I volunteered to become ‘Website Committee Chair’, I already had in my […]
Membership
Understanding the Benefits of ISSTD Membership
As a valued member of ISSTD, we want to make sure you are making the most of your membership and are aware of the full range of benefits available to you. Over the course of 2018, we will be sending an email on the third Monday of each month highlighting and explaining all of your ISSTD […]
Clinical E-Journal
JTD and Frontiers Table of Contents (January 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 18, Issue 2 Volume 18, Issue 3 Volume 18, Issue 4 Volume 18, Issue 5 Are you interested in auto publication alerts? To set up a […]