#dissociation tag

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

Her madness seeps into the everyday: a shower caddy's arrangement becomes proof of conspiracy, and breakdown coexists with term papers, hookups, and trips to TJ Maxx. Avoiding romance and melodrama, deBoer writes in an affectless register that mirrors Alice's dissociation. The novel's power lies in its relentless banality-the mind churning while life's machinery grinds on. During a halting recovery, Alice develops "deep intuitions" about her medications, which, she suspects, interact "like hot-tempered roommates in the shabby apartment of her brain."

Books

#trauma

fromPsychology Today

18 hours ago

Mental health

When the Self Rifts-and How It Repairs

fromPsychology Today

2 months ago

Psychology

Understanding Dissociative States

fromPsychology Today

5 months ago

Mindfulness

Numbing Out? Drifting Off? Feel Like You're Going Crazy?

fromPsychology Today

18 hours ago

Mental health

When the Self Rifts-and How It Repairs

fromPsychology Today

2 months ago

Psychology

Understanding Dissociative States

fromPsychology Today

5 months ago

Mindfulness

Numbing Out? Drifting Off? Feel Like You're Going Crazy?

Lives Unlived: Stealing Back the Future After Trauma and Loss

Trauma survivors often live simultaneously in actual lives and imagined alternate lives, with dissociative 'might-have-been' realities shaping identity and recovery.

Books

fromBustle

1 month ago

This Book Was "Written Totally Crazy." You Have To Read It.

A COVID-related neuropsychiatric illness produced vivid dissociation, altered perception, fractured identity, and was later transformed into surreal, self-reflective prose.

Mental health

fromPsychology Today

1 month ago

Dissociation and Chronic Illness

Dissociation temporarily protects from overwhelming physical pain but becomes harmful when prolonged; gentle, regular embodiment practices help safely return to the body.

Mental health

fromPsychology Today

2 months ago