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...
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 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...
