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 | 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 6, 2025 | Community Building, Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Relational Healing, Therapy Harm
(And… obviously, but not so obvious to some, against therapy harm.) Setting the Record Straight Let’s clear this up right now… I am not against therapy. I’ve sat in those chairs. I’ve done the work. Therapy has saved lives… including mine. It can be sacred,...
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 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...
