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 | 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 | 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...
