by The Anti-Therapist | Feb 1, 2026 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
Response to NYT article “What It’s Like to Live With One of Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Diagnoses” I read the New York Times Magazine piece (listed at the end of this) on Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and felt that familiar, hot, nauseous mix of recognition...
by The Anti-Therapist | Jan 15, 2026 | Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Theories, Therapy Harm
When “Trauma-Informed” Stops Being Relational Trauma models are meant to be maps, not mandates. They exist to support attunement, not to override it. Yet in contemporary trauma and dissociation care, certain frameworks… particularly phase-based models… are too...
by The Anti-Therapist | Jan 10, 2026 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Journal Unleashed: Reflections, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Therapy Harm, Uncategorized
I am writing as both a clinician and a plural person with lived experience. What follows is not a reaction to a television show, a disagreement about humor, or a matter of personal taste. It is an ethical critique of how influence, authority, and narrative control...
by The Anti-Therapist | Dec 2, 2025 | Community Building, Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
The Violence Hidden Inside “Standards,” “Safety,” and the Dismissal of Lived Experience Coercive control isn’t always loud. It isn’t always overt. In professional groups… especially within mental health, trauma work, and “trauma-informed” collectives… coercive...
by The Anti-Therapist | Oct 8, 2025 | Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Theories, Therapy Harm
From Structural Dissociation to IFS… How White Male Psychiatry Branded Multiplicity as Disorder The Roots of Control Let’s start with a truth that makes professionals twitch… Ego State Theory wasn’t born from curiosity about the plural mind. It was born from fear of...
by The Anti-Therapist | Oct 3, 2025 | Community Building, Power and Systems in Mental Health
How Much of Being Human Is Still Allowed? The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders… the DSM… began as a slim little book. Now it looms like a thick “encyclopedia”, stuffed with codes and categories that sprawl across the entire terrain of human life....
