by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 14, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Therapy Letters, Trauma-informed
Dear Therapist, How the hell am I supposed to sit here and “focus on me” when the whole world is on fire? Every headline screams collapse. Every conversation with my clients, my kids, my friends, spirals into fear. And I’m supposed to come into your office and make my...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 13, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Theories, Therapy Harm
The Darling of Clinicians Structural dissociation theory has become the golden child of trauma treatment. You’ll see it everywhere… in EMDR trainings, in supervision groups, on conference slides, in the margins of textbooks. Its diagrams… those neat...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 12, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
Plurality Is Not a Disorder For decades, plurality has been shoved under psychiatric labels… Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD). Each one stamped with the word “DISORDER.” Each...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 12, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Trauma-informed
Complex Trauma Weaponized They call it Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). I call it The Scarlet Letter of Psychiatry. A diagnosis slapped onto survivors when their pain is too raw, too messy, too inconvenient for the system to stomach. A label used to control,...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 9, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Relational Healing, Trauma-informed
The Trauma-Industrial Complex “Trauma-informed” has become a marketing brand. It’s stamped across websites, plastered on intake forms, sprinkled into bios. It signals, “You’re safe here. We get it.” But more often than not, it’s just branding… a sales pitch. There’s...
