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....
by The Anti-Therapist | Oct 3, 2025 | Power and Systems in Mental Health, Therapy Harm
The Keep-You-Sick-and-Broke Cycle There’s something twisted happening in the mental health world that no one wants to name out loud… People are going to therapy… to heal from therapy. Yes. You read that right. Survivors walk into a therapist’s office carrying wounds,...
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...
