Suzette Boon PhD is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist specialized in the treatment of chronic traumatization and dissociative disorders. She translated and validated the Dutch version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D) and received a PhD for her thesis “Multiple Personality Disorder in the Netherlands” in 1993.
She has developed a skills training manual for patients with a complex dissociative disorder: Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation (Boon, Steele, & Van der Hart, 2011). She is coauthor of the book “Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation, A Practical, Integrative Approach” (Steele, Boon & Van der Hart, 2017) that won the Pierre Janet writing award of ISSTD in 2017.
Her latest book ‘Assessing Trauma-Related Dissociation’, published in 2023 includes a new diagnostic interview: the ‘Trauma and Dissociation Symptoms Interview (TADS-I’).
Suzette is currently working in private practice and teaching mainly on chronic traumatization and dissociative disorders.
Suzette is co-founder of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD) and was the first president of this Society. She has received several awards from the ISSTD among which the lifetime achievement award for her contributions to diagnosis, treatment, research and education in the field of dissociative disorders.
