by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 24, 2025 | Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
The Harmful “Trend” Narrative Let’s get one thing straight… Calling plurality a trend is gaslighting. Clinicians love to throw this line out when they see more people speaking openly about being plural online, as if visibility is proof of fabrication. But...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 23, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
We Are Not Broken… We Are Proof of Survival If you are plural, dissociative, trauma-shaped: hear this first. You are not broken. You are not defective. You are not pathology. You are alive because you adapted in ways that outsmarted annihilation. Where others would...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 19, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
Beyond Survival Plurality gets boxed in as just survival… A nervous system scrambling to endure the impossible. And yes, survival is some of the roots. But plurality doesn’t stay caged there. Survival is a seed. Liberation is the bloom. Plurality is not only survival....
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 16, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
Welcome to the Freak Show (Apparently, That’s Us) Plurality, autism, ADHD, trauma, neurodivergence… we’re the lab rats, the freak show, the never-ending grant proposal. Singletons love to put us under their microscope like they’re David Attenborough narrating… ...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 15, 2025 | Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Theories, Therapy Harm
The Therapy World’s Shiny Gold-Standard Internal Family Systems (IFS) has been branded as the shiny gold-standard™ for talking about parts. Therapists rave about how it “changes everything.” Suddenly, people who once called multiplicity a pathology now...
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...