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Dissociation Made Simple

A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Daily Life

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Dissociation Made Simple

By: Jamie Marich PHD, Jaime Pollack M.ED. - foreword
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Dissociation 101: The go-to guide for understanding your dissociative disorder, breaking the stigma, and healing from trauma-related dissociation.

Guided by psychologist Jamie Marich—a trauma-informed clinician living with a dissociative disorder herself—this book tells you 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

• How to understand and work with your “parts”—the unique emotional and behavioral profiles that can develop from personality fragmentation

• There’s nothing shameful about dissociating—that, in fact, we can all dissociate

• Skills and strategies for living your best, authentic, and most fulfilled life

• What to look for in a therapist: choosing a healer who sees you and gets it

• Foundational elements of healing from trauma, including PTSD and C-PTSD

With practical guided exercises like “The Dissociative Profile” and “Parts Mapping,” this book is written for those diagnosed with dissociative disorders, clinicians and therapists who treat trauma and dissociation, and listeners who are 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, with empowerment and support—and without stigma, judgment, or shame.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Jamie Marich (P)2023 North Atlantic Books
Mental Health Mood Disorders Personal Development Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders Psychology & Mental Health
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Critic reviews

"The fresh approach we’ve needed ... that challenges the status quo of treatment and the stigma around mental health and addiction."—ANNA DAVID, best-selling author of Party Girl

"Marich’s honesty about her personal experiences combined with her professional knowledge serve to demystify and de-pathologize a common adaptive survival response and to provide readers with hope and embodied self-compassion."—JANE CLAPP, author and founder of Jungian Somatics

"[This book] approaches the topic on a human level with real-life examples, avoiding academic jargon and providing straightforward ways of looking at dissociation."—ANN GOELITZ, PhD, LCSW, author of From Trauma to Healing

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It’s helping me get over my fear and bias. Working on inpatient psych units taught me to see DID patients as other and not to be trusted. Thank you.

Information with normalization

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I liked the info. The tone of the book felt too angry. useful but wouldn't really recommend.

It was okay

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Best info of the entire book was found in appendixes; the main body of the book was equal parts [deeply personal] journal entry, angry soapbox, and letter to the editor. A better title would have made all the difference. JM showed great courage though (and righteous indignation) by 'coming out' as having DID, BUT... simultaneously reinforced my trauma survivor dissociation shame with all the anonymous caregivers as contributors. If they can't model self compassion in this circumstance, how can they ever expect a client to resist internalizing cruel criticisms and self hatred? Last thought...., I never liked anything labeled as being "made easy", especially THIS subject! Nothing about CPTSD and it's resulting dissociative mind could be made simple.

Seriously Ambivalent about Recommending

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Great work overall. Gave overviews of the various models of understanding and treating dissociative disorders. Many instances of complaining about the lack of inclusivity of specific experiences of people with dissociative disorders when it’s understandably challenging to creative conceptualizations and models that fit everything case or makes every patient or client feel heard and validated. At the end of the day, we do need some labels, and that’s going to make some people feel left out or boxed in. But that’s why mental health is so nuanced.

Great intro on dissociation and its complexities

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This text is aimed at lay person , if your a therapist and you want to learn how to treat DID type related disorders this book won’t do that . It does however give you a general overview of DID and other related disorders. I wish the book had more clinical content as I found it relied heavily on other peoples experiences . It often times felt all over the place and just telling me general Information about a modality or practice , then going into how “contributors “ experience eg IFS or yoga etc . I was hoping for a self help book that would walk you through treating DID , this is more of a literature review .

For lay person

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This book revealed dissociation in all its complexity without trying to limit and define it. It healed places in me and made me feel proud to belong to a amazingly creative, brave, articulate, humble dissociative community.

Jamie writes with clarity and wisdom. Not one word too much or too little.

Life changing

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Great and informative- makes accessible to professional and non professional alike. Recommend to all populations.

Great

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An excellent book and resource “stigma-free” indeed. I really like the holistic approach bringing in so many different modalities and helps. The number of people interviewed is a wealth of validation and perspective.

Extremely helpful

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If you wonder about yourself, and experiences where you feel you are not totally yourself as You know you, read this book.

Wonderful and awakening. Thank you Jamie!

Simple, yet profound

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Struggled to finish. Not very informative I was really hoping this book would give me a real understanding but it was a big let down.

Nothing special...

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