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 8, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Therapy Harm, Trauma-informed
Dissociation Isn’t Uncommon. It’s Human. Dissociation gets treated like an uncommon, worrisome, exotic symptom… the mark of the most “severe” disorders. Dissociation is human. Everyone does it…. Zoning out while driving and realizing you’ve missed your...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 3, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Trauma-informed
Plurality Is Born Into Shame… But Shame Isn’t Ours Plurality itself isn’t shameful. It is a way of being human… one that has existed across cultures, across histories, across lives. But in our world, plurality rarely gets the chance to exist without shame....
by The Anti-Therapist | Aug 30, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Relational Healing
There’s a raw difference between PTSD, cPTSD, and the chaos that forged you. The mental health world loves to box human suffering into tidy little acronyms: PTSD, cPTSD, pick your favorite flavor of alphabet soup. But here’s the thing… those labels rarely hold the...
