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 12, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Trauma-informed
Complex Trauma Weaponized They call it Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). I call it The Scarlet Letter of Psychiatry. A diagnosis slapped onto survivors when their pain is too raw, too messy, too inconvenient for the system to stomach. A label used to control,...
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...
by The Anti-Therapist | Aug 29, 2025 | Journal Unleashed: Reflections, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Trauma-informed
There’s a voice that often gets silenced in professional spaces: The voice of the therapist who is also a survivor. The coach who is also plural. The practitioner who is neurodivergent, trauma-impacted, and deeply human. In other words…those of us who live the work....
