GoingToMeet

We are excited to invite you to the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies' 24th annual meeting to be held in Chicago, Illinois on November 13-15, 2008, with pre-meeting institutes held on November 12. The theme of our meeting will be "Terror and its Aftermath."

Terror connotes both a state of extreme fear and the fact that there is usually a perpetrator using violence to intimidate or oppress. In this meeting, we hope to explore the way people respond to terror in diverse settings, and to explore some of the interfaces between basic science, clinical practice and social policy.

The theme will not restrict the conference to terrorism and terrorist violence. Terrifying experiences may also include (for example) sexual and physical abuse within families, the terrorisation of one local community by another, organised repressive violence and torture by states and national groups. We intend to interpret this theme broadly.