A review by han_reardonsmith
Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Daily Life by Jamie Marich

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Really useful framing of dissociative experiences that helps me to understand myself (in all my parts and their iterations!) so much better, with really practical exercises that I feel really good about both working on myself and taking to my therapist. As an artmaker, I really appreciated the suggested creative practices, which really help with engaging my parts through something other than the analysis lens of talk therapy, and can actually unite parts that are frequently in conflict with one another. At least one of my parts wanted a more linear description of what to expect and what to do about dissociation, but that also helped me recognise how desperate that part is for a clarity that I’m not going to have access to, at least in this complex and messy body and experience of life! I loved that this centered lived experiences from a range of contributors (alongside that of the author), with quite diverse perspectives. I’m grateful for the validation and tenderness I found in these pages, and highly recommend it for anyone finding that CBT is worsening their internal landscape rather than helping it — at least for me personally, I think this was a sign that any kind of superficial and primarily cognitive therapeutic work was doing more harm than good and that there was far more below the surface desperate for care and attention.
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