Annual Awards

Annual Awards Winners

Every year ISSTD members have the opportunity to nominate individuals, groups and organizations who have contributed significantly to the field of complex trauma and dissociation for an ISSTD Annual Award. Below please find the listing of ISSTD Award Winners for each year. For descriptions of each award please visit this page.

Frank Corrigan
David Gleave

Lauren Lebois

Cori Palermo

Jennifer Freyd

Hvovi Bhagwagar

Zaya Ralitza Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo

Jaan Reitav and Celeste Thirwell – Putting Trauma to Sleep
Shin Shin Tang – Asian American Psychology and psychotherapy: Intergenerational Trauma, Betrayal, and Liberation

U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine (NASEM) Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education

Milissa Kaufman

Juliann Purcell

Bethany Brand and team – A Randomized Controlled Trial Assists Individuals With Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Finding Solid Ground

Alexis Arbuthnott
Jennifer Gomez
David Archer
Mary-Anne Kate

Laura S. Brown
Christine A. Courtois
Joyanna L. Silberg

Sheldon Itzkowitz
Farnsworth Lobenstine

Suzette Boon

Audrey Zatopek

Joanne H. Twombly – Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems

Lisa Danylchuk

None Awarded

Brad Foote

Xi Pan
Nicholas A. Pierorazio

Fern Banner
Krista Behrens
Jennifer A. Madere

Martin J. Dorahy and Warwick Middleton

SAMVAD

Charles A. Benicasa
Seini O’Connor
Nicholas A. Pierorazio
Sarah Wentling
Bethany Brand
Benjamin Israel
Hygge Schielke

Christine C. Forner

None Awarded

Sherain Harricharan for “I am Afraid You Will See the Stain on My Soul’: Direct Gaze Neural Processing in Individuals with PTSD After Moral Injury Recall”
Juliann B. Purcell for “Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Leveraging Neurobiology to Optimize Success

Jennifer Gomez for “The Cultural Betrayal of Black Women & Girls: A Black Feminist Approach to Healing from Sexual Abuse”
Kevin Connors & Lynette Danylchuk for “Treating Complex Trauma and Dissociation”

Elizabeth Howell

Dylan and Holly Crumpler for “Petals of a Rose”

Paul Dell for Chapter 14 in Dorahy, Gold & O’Neil, eds, “Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders (2nd ed.) – Past, Present, Future”

Robert Muller, Thor Paulson, Benjamin Perrin and Robert Maunder for “Toward a Trauma-Informed Approach to Evidence Law”

D. Michael Coy
Jennifer Freyd
Kate McMaugh

Arnold Rachman for “Psychoanalysis and Society’s Neglect of the Sexual Abuse of Children, Youth and Adults: Re-addressing Freud’s Original Theory of Sexual Abuse and Trauma”

Alexis Arbuthnott
Rick Hohfeler
Rachel Sage
Willa Wertheimer

No Laughing Matter

Martin J. Dorahy

Frank Corrigan

Andrew Glimoor

Bethany Brand, Francesca Shiavone, Hugo J. Scheilke, and Ruth Lanius – Finding Solid Ground: Overcoming Obstacles in Trauma Treatment

Camille Bianchi for “The Nurse” podcast

None Awarded

None Awarded

Rebecca Moran
Shae Nester

Briana Snyder
Tally Tripp

Heather Hall

Heather Hall
Jill Hosey
Benjamin Israel and Jonathan Cleveland

Johanna Dobrich

Cynthia Closs
Kate McMaugh

Blue Knot Foundation
Rahi Foundation

Bethany Brand
Steve Gold
Frances Waters

D. Michael Coy
Jennifer Madere

None Awarded

Valerie Sinason and Ashley Conway – Trauma and memory: The science and the silenced.
Martin Dorahy

Josh Robertson for “Unmasking Monsters”

Emily Christensen for “Me, Not Me, and We”
Lowen Clarke for “Missing Persons Bureau”

Negar Fani

None Awarded

Rosita Cortizo
Heather Hall
Naomi Halpern
Jill Hosey
Peter Maves

Su Baker
Rosalie Hyde
Holly Maddy
Peter Maves
Rebeca Gonzalez Sherman
Lauren Lebois
Milissa Kaufman

None Awarded

Katherine Reuben

Nick Bryant

Yara Mekawi, Sierra Carter, Brittney Brown, Ana Martinez de Andino, Negar Fani, Vasiliki Michopoulos & Abigail Powers (2021) Interpersonal Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among Black Women: Does Racial Discrimination Matter?, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 22:2

Sheldon Itzkowitz
Andreas Laddis

D Michael Coy
Christine Forner
Simone Reinders

Sherry Winternitz

Lora Dimitrova

Bethany Bjur
Mary Pat Hanlin
Christa Kruger

Valerie Sinason – The Truth about
Trauma and Dissociation: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know and Were Afraid to Ask

David Becker
Michelle Esrick

None awarded

Mary-Anne Kate

Elizabeth Howell
Sheldon Itzkowitz

D. Michael Coy
Lynette Danylchuk
Martin Dorahy
Christine Forner
Marilyn Korzekwa
Rochelle Sharpe Lohrashbe
Jennifer Madere
Gary Peterson
Peter Maves
Alison Miller
Emily Christensen
Vedat Sar

Justin Baker
Atillia Gonenx
Elizabeth Grinspoon
Staci Gruber
Milissa Kaufman
Ashley Lambros
Lauren Lebois
Meiling Li
Hesheng Liu
Jianun Ren
Kerry Ressler
Danhong Wang
Sherry Winternitz
Jonathan Wolff

None Awarded

None awarded

Brianna C. Delker, Rowan Salton & Kate C. McLean (2020) Giving Voice to Silence: Empowerment and Disempowerment in the Developmental Shift from Trauma ‘Victim’ to ‘Survivor-Advocate’, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 21:2

Su Baker
John O’Neil

Martin Dorahy

Steven Gold
Agnieszka Widera-Wysoczańska

None awarded

Su Baker
Joan Turkus

None awarded

Emma Sunshaw for System Speak Podcast

Gabriel JX Dance
Michael H Keller
Peter Fox

Lauren Lebois

A.A.T. Simone Reinders

Diane Clare
Courtenay Crucil
Ricky Kriete
Abigail Percifield

Felicity de Zulueta

None awarded

Joanne McCarthy

Paul F. Dell (2019) Reconsidering the autohypnotic model of the dissociative disorders, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation

Lynette S Danylchuk
Ira Brenner

Frances Waters

Mary-Anne Kate

Marilyn Korzekwa
Andreas Laddis

A&E Network & Renegade 83 for the documentary series The Many Sides of Jane

Robert T Muller
Patricia Niland
Tracey Shelton

Bethany Brand

Paul Dell

Sandra Baita
Andrea Calleja
Mariana Grana
Karen Hopenwasser

Daniel S Schecter

None Awarded

Jula Guillard

Reconsidering the autohypnotic model of the dissociative disorders. Paul F. Dell; 20(1), 48-78

Warwick Middleton
Colin Ross
Joan Turkus

Milissa Kaufman

Tuba Mutluer

None awarded

Despina Noula Diamantopoulos

Michael Salter

D Michael Coy
Kate McMaugh

Daniel P Brown
David S Elliott

Australian Royal Commission:
Hon Justice Peter McClellan AM
Hon Justice Jennifere Coate
Commissioner Bob Atkinson AO APM
Commissioner Andrew Murray
Commissioner Helen Milroy
Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald AM
Gail Furness SC

Intergenerational transmission of traumatization: Theoretical framework and implications for prevention. Ariel J. Lang & Maria A. Gartstein; 19(2), 162-175

Abigail Percifield
Jonathan D Wolff

Therese O Clemens

None awarded

Ralf Vogt

Richard Chefetz
Elizabeth Howell

Martin Dorahy
Warwick Middleton
Janet Migdow
Willa Wertheimer

Elisa Monti for the film, You’ll Say Nothing

Donna Hicks

AAT Simone Reinders

None awarded

Suzette Boon
Bethany Brand
Sima Chalavi
Nel Draijer
Mechteld Giesen
Ellert Nijenhuis
Kathy Steele
Frank Putnam
AAT Simone Reinders
Onno van der Hart
Eline Vissia

Richard Hohfeler
Joan Haliburn
Christa Kruger
Robert Slater

Mentalization and Dissociation in the Context of Trauma: Implications for Child Psychopathology. Karin Ensink PhD, Michael Begin BA, Lina Normandin PhD, Natacha Godbout PhD & Peter Fonagy PhD; 18(1), 11-30.

Jennifer Freyd
Valerie Sinason

Colin Ross

Maria Quinn

Elizabeth Bowman
Brad Foote
Robert Llewellyn-Jones

Mental Health Professionals Network (Australia)

Niki Gomez-Perales
Sheldon Itzkowitz
Elizabeth Howell
Na’ama Yehuda

Martin Dorahy
Alfonzo Martinez-Taboas

Ellert Nijenhuis

Philip J Kinsler
Vivian Pender
Willa Wertheimer

Jytte van Huijstee

Shifting the focus: Nonpathologizing approaches to healing from betrayl trauma through an emphasis on relational care. Gomez JM, Lewis JK, Noll LK, Smidt AM, & Birrell, P; 17(2), 165-185.

A Steven Frankel
Vedat Sar

Renee Potgieter-Marks

Marloes Eidhof
Michelle Downs-Woolley

Joan Turkus

Cathy Kezelman

Richard Chefetz

None awarded

Richard Chefetz

Christine Forner
Warwick Middleton

Becky Stewart
Aliya Webermann

Shifting the focus: Nonpathologizing approaches to hChange in heart rate variability after the Adult Attachment Interview in dissociative patients. Farina B, Speranza A M, Imperatori C, Quintiliani M I, & Marca G D. 2015; 16(2), 170-180

Eli Somer

None Awarded

Aliya Weberman
Sarah Herzog
Brianna Snyder

Joan Golston

None awarded

None awarded

None awarded

Bethany Brand
Martin J Dorahy
Christa Kruger
Roberto Lewis-Fernandez
Alfonso Martinez-Taboas
Warwick Middleton
Vedat Sar
Pam Stavropoulos

Bethany Brand
Kevin Connors
Na’ama Yehuda

None awarded

Early Traumatized Inpatients High in Psychoform and Somatoform Dissociation: Characteristics and Treatment Response. Heir, T, Jepsen E, Langeland W, J Trauma Dissociation. 2014; 15(5):572-587

Frank W Putnam

Sandra Wieland

Johannes Ehrenthal
Selwyn Renard

None awarded

None awarded

Richard P Kluft
Jacqueline A Samson
Joyanna Silberg
Martin H Teicher

Warwick Middleton

None awarded

Lynette S Danylchuk
Annual Conference Committee

Winja Marie Lutz

Early Traumatized Inpatients High in Psychoform and Where are we going? An update on assessment, treatment, and neurobiological research in dissociative disorders as we move toward the DSM-5. Brand BL, Lanius R, Vermetten E, Loewenstein RJ, Spiegel D, J Trauma Dissociation. 2012;13(1):9-31

Richard J Loewenstein

Bethany Brand

E Grace Priest
Emily J Hennrich
Sarah Ahlfs-Dunn

Sandra Baita
Anabel Gonzalez

None awarded

Elizabeth Howell

Annemiek van Dijke

Bethany Brand
Etzel Cardena
Eve Carlson
Constance Dalenberg
Martin Dorahy
Paul Frewen
David Gleaves
Richard J Loewenstein
David Spiegel

Serge Goffinet
Manoelle Hopchet
Frances S Waters

None Awarded

Paul F Dell
Ellert RS Nijenhuis

Kathy Steele

Jonathan DePierro
Madeleine Karpel
Reese Minshew
Melissa Platt

Lynette Danylchuk
Jennifer Freyd
Andreas Laddis
Tara Williams

First Person Plural for the film A Logical Way of Being – Melanie Goodwin, Kathryn Livingston, Jill Saunders, and Oriel

Ruth Lanius
Robert T Muller
Clare Pain
Eric Vermetten

None awarded

Suzette Boon
Kathy Steele
Onno van Der Hart

Sheila Hatcher
Christine Forner
Michael Foust
Jennifer Randall

None Awarded

Kathy Steele

None awarded

J Audie Black
Sima Chalavi
Molly Wolf

Joanne Twombly

Sapphire

Christine Courtois
Julian Ford
Elizabeth Howell

Vedat Sar
Constance Dalenberg

Martin Dorahy
Andrew Moskowitz
Ingo Schafer
Daniel Schechter

Vedat Sar
Therese Clemens

None Awarded

Suzette Boon

Joan Turkus

Shira Bennett
Ryan Matlow
Kai Monde

Liora Somer

Mary Jo Kaplan, Showtime Networks

Paul F Dell

Bethany Brand

John O’Neil

Thomas G Carlton

None Awarded

Robyn Gobin
Amie Kolos
Michal Lavy
Jocelyn Soffer

Trine Anstorp
Kirsten Benum
Marianne Jacobson

None awarded

None awarded

Wendy Anson

None awarded

Brad Foote

Martin Dorahy
David Spiegel
Eric Vermetten

Richard Chefetz

None Awarded

None awarded

Richard J Loewenstein

Don Beere

Katharina Kircanski
Robert Cory Fanto
Edward MacPhee
Lynda Thiessen
Katarzyna Wyka

Abby Braun

None awarded

Ruth Lanius

Daniel Schechter

Thomas G Tudor

Monica Monahan

None awarded

Elizabeth Howell

Brandon Korman

Oprah Winfrey

Ellert RS Nijenhuis
Chuck Palahniuk
Kathy Steele
Onno van der Hart

Su Baker
Richard A Chefetz
Chris Comstock
Bob Patin
George Rhoades

Carsen Spitzer

Paul F Dell

Richard A Chefetz

Nicole Richardson

Elizabeth S Bowman
Richard P Kluft

Marlene Steinberg

George A Fraser

Chuck Palahnuik

None awarded

Daphne Simeon

Johan A den Boer
Jaap Haaksma
Jakob Korf
Ellert TS Nijenuis
Anne MJ Paans
Jacqueline Quak
AAT Simone Reinders
Antoon TM Willemsen

Giovanni Liotti
Kathryn A Becker-Blease
Kirby Deater-Deckard
Thalia Eley
Jennifer J Freyd
Jim Stevenson
Robert Plomin

James A Chu

Stacey L Seibel

Vedat Sar
Anne Suokas-Cunliffe

Karen Way

Dennis S Pilon

Marilyn Van Derbur

None awarded

Paul F Dell

Etzel Cardena
David H Gleaves

Elizabeth Power
Su Baker

None awarded

Catherine Fine (2003)
Constance Dalenberg (2002)
Edith Baum (2001)
Christine Courtois (2001)
Eli Somer (2000)
James Chu (1999)
Claire Frederick (1998)
Maggie Phillips (1998)
Joyanna Silberg (1997)
Larry Michelson (1996)
William Ray (1996)
Ralph Allison (1995)
Jean Goodwin (1994)
Nancy L Hornstein (1993)
Richard Loewenstein (1992)
James Chu (1991)
Frank Putnam (1990)
Catherine Fine (1989)
Moshe S Torem (1988)
Bennett Braun (1987)
Philip M Coons (1986)
Richard P Kluft (1985)

Rafaele Huntjens (2003)
Martin Dorahy (2002)
Catherina M Dornbusch (2001)
Ursula Gast (2000)
Gamze Akyuz (1999)
Orhan Dogan (1999)
Vedat Sar (1999)
L Ilhan Yargic (1999)
Hamdi Tutkun (1999)
Bolu Duzce (1999)
Kerry J Lang (1998)
Joel Paris (1998)
Haille Zweig-Frank (1998)
W John Livesly (1998)
Rachel Yehuda (1996)
H Tutkun (1995)
LI Yargic (1995)
Vedat Sar (1995)
L Meyer Williams (1994)
S Boon (1993)
N Draijer (1993)
N Hornstein (1992)
D Savitz (1991)
M Steinberg (1990)
R Riley (1989)
J Meade (1989)

Stephen E Braude (2003)
Elizabeth Bowman (2002)
Richard P Kluft (2002)
John O’Neil (2001)
Christine Comstock (2001)
Su Baker (2000)
Peter Barach (2000)
Kathy Steele (1999)
Frank W Putnam (1998)
Alan W Scheflin, Jr (1998)
D Corydon Hammond (1998)
Daniel Brown (1998)
Michaela Huber (1997)
Jeanie McIntee (1997)
Bennett Braun (1996)
John Curtis (1996)
P Barach (1995)
S Marmer (1995)
E Bowman (1995)
N Perry (1995)
M Steinberg (1995)
B Carlson (1993)
P Coons (1993)
J Chu (1993)
A Kadish (1993)
C Comstock (1992)
G Fraser (1992)
R Sachs (1992)
C Fine (1992)
G Peterson (1992)
B Cohen (1991)
E Giller (1991)
L Wasnak (1991)
C Wilbur (1987)

Remy Aquarone (2003)
Clare Pain (2003)
Marcia C Cotton (2002)
Charles Wharton (2001)
Elizabeth Bowman (2000)
James A Chu (2000)
Su Baker (1999)
Carol J Bruce (1999)
John O’Neil (1999)
Chris Costner Sizemore (1998)
Elizabeth Bowman (1997)
Peter Barach (1996)
Moshe Torem (1995)
Onno van der Hart (1995)
Suzette Boon (1995)
Marlene Steinberg (1994)
Lynn Wasnak (1993)
Peter Barach (1993)
Gary Peterson (1993)
Stephen Marmer (1992)
George Faust (1991)
Colin Ross (1990)
Bennett Braun (1989)
Richard Kluft (1988)
Christine Comstock (1987)
David Caul (1986)
George Greaves (1985)

Harvey L Schwartz (2003)
Paul J Fink (2002)
Ulla Froehling (2001)
Cavalcade Productions, Inc (2000)
Christine Comstock (1999)
Lynn S Crook (1999)
Ridgeview Institute (1998)
Richard P Kluft (1998)
Beth Gault (1998)
David Baldwin (1997)
Michael Stanton (1996)

George A Fraser (2003)
Kelly A Forrest (2002)
Onno van der Hart (2001)
Kathy Steele (2001)
Ellert RS Nijenhuis (2000)
David H Gleaves (1999)
James Chu (1998)
Jennifer Freyd (1997)
Alfonso Martinez-Taboas (1996)
I Hacking (1995)
D Spiegel (1994)
F Putnam (1993)
R Kluft (1992)
O van der Hart (1991)

Irit Nachmani (2003)
Steven Ruths (2002)
Selah Richards (2001)

Linda Catherine Cutting (1997)
NHK Television (Japan) (1996)
Tom Togashi (1996)
Daisuke Takama (1996)

Phillip M Coons (2003)
Daniel Brown (2002)
Alan W Scheflin (2002)
Vedat Sar (2001)
Frank Leavitt (2000)
Etzel Cardena (1999)
Ellert RS Nijenhuis (1998)
Niels Waller (1997)
E Frischholz (1995)
S Boon (1994)
N Drayer (1994)
M Steinberg (1993)
E Carlson (1992)
B Braun (1991)
R Lowenstein (1990)
C Ross (1989)
J Watkins (1988)
P Coons (1987)
R Kluft (1986)
F Putnam (1985)