Committee composition: Orit Badouk-Epstein, Dolores Mosquera, Onno van der Hart (co-editors), Winja Buss, Renée P. Marks, Antonio Onofri, Jenny Ann Rydberg, Valerie Sinason.

Mission: Following ESTD's mission statement, the ESTD newsletter constitutes a significant means to meet the organisation's aims of increasing information, providing knowledge and education, and supporting communication among professionals.

 Specific objectives:

• Increase and disseminate knowledge about research and clinical practice in the fields of trauma and dissociation.
• Provide information on related activities in all ESTD member countries and beyond.
• Elicit contributions from a wide range of potential authors, both those who are experienced and those who are new to writing.
• Provide information on relevant books and films through reviews.
• Summarise recent research that is relevant to trauma and dissociation.
• Describe upcoming conferences, workshops, and trainings.

Function statements:

1.  Invite contributions.
2.  Select and edit articles.
3. Identify and organise relevant information.
4. Liaise with the graphic designer Frank Myklestad.