Embracing Your Dissociative Mind: A Stigma-Free Guide

Dissociation Made Simple: Understanding, Healing, and Breaking Stigma

The go-to guide for understanding your dissociative disorder, breaking the stigma, and healing from trauma-related dissociation. This book is as important as The Body Keeps the Score, but an easier read according to a 5-star reader review.

Guided by clinical counselor Jamie Marich—a trauma-informed clinician living with a dissociative disorder herself—this book provides everything you need to know about dissociation, but were too afraid to ask. Here, you’ll learn what dissociation is and why it’s a natural response to trauma. You’ll also learn how to understand and work with your “parts”—the unique emotional and behavioral profiles that can develop from personality fragmentation. It emphasizes that there’s nothing shameful about dissociating and provides skills and strategies for living your best, authentic, and most fulfilled life.

The book also covers what to look for in a therapist when choosing a healer who truly sees you and understands your experience. It includes foundational elements of healing from trauma, including PTSD and C-PTSD. Practical guided exercises like “The Dissociative Profile” and “Parts Mapping” are provided, making it suitable for those diagnosed with dissociative disorders, clinicians and therapists who treat trauma and dissociation, and readers exploring whether they may have dissociative symptoms or a condition like dissociative identity disorder (DID). Dissociation Made Simple breaks it all down accessibly and comprehensively, empowering and supporting without stigma, judgment, or shame.

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