Archiving dissociation as a precaution against dissociating dissociation.

Judith Herman (1992) famously observed, “The knowledge of horrible events periodically intrudes into public awareness but is rarely retained for long. Denial, repression, and dissociation operate on a social as well as an individual level” (p. 2). The truth of Herman’s observation makes editing the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation (JTD) all that more sweet–for in creating this journal we are taking an action against the burial of knowledge. This action is made more powerful by the fact that JTD is archived on-line in addition to in print. I take pride and pleasure in the thought that our work in creating this journal will be a force for intellectual advance, and a force against repression and dissociation operating on a social level. Herman (1992) goes on to note: “Like traumatized people, we have been cut off from the knowledge of our past. Like traumatized people, we need to understand the past in order to reclaim the present and the fu-