Dissociation

In The Body is Bad: When Disability and Complex Dissociative Disorders Meet, Marin Hann, LPC, states, “Our emotions are there to give us a very important wordless message and the problem is that we do not always interpret that message accurately. The longer we have…

It can be hard to believe, but all parts of you were created to help and serve a purpose. Even if you have parts that seem scary, that say mean things to you about yourself, that have encouraged self-harm, or who sound and act like…

Some of the core values that drive my work with all of my clients, but the dissociative ones in particular are: consent, compassion, curiosity, communication & cooperation. Consent is vital across all parts/alters/ego-states. Any of the work I do needs to be done with consideration…

I’ve spent a lot of the last few months discussing and posting about dissociation and the ways in which it shows up for people. And now I’d like to begin focusing on ways to cope with or deal with dissociation. First and foremost, as with…

As Walt Whitman says, I contain multitudes. We all do. We all contain many parts, aspects and selves. This is not the sole domain of folks with Dissociative Identity Disorder. We all start out with parts, or ego-states that eventually integrate into what we experience…

There is a growing body of literature suggesting that psychotic symptoms and dissociation might be different aspects of the same phenomenon. As in discussed in the book Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation: Evolving Perspectives (ed Horowitz, Dorahy, & Schaffer) In both psychosis & dissociation a person…