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“I know why the caged bird sings” Maya Angelo
The Embodied Fracture: Gender Discomfort and Dissociation as Undiagnosed Trauma
The Wounded Healers Institute (WHI), through the lens of the Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM), views the psychological distress known as Gender Dysphoria (GD) or Gender Discomfort (GDC) not as a primary condition, but as a severe somatic manifestation of unresolved trauma and chronic dissociation. This perspective is particularly critical for understanding the high co-occurrence…
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Bipolar as Dissociation
Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a mood disorder characterized by significant shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and concentration. These shifts involve episodes of elevated or irritable mood (mania or hypomania) and episodes of depression, but dissociation must be at play. Research indicates a notable relationship between Bipolar Disorder, childhood trauma, and dissociative experiences. Childhood…
Betrayal Trauma: Illegal Psychology
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Dissociation as a Transdiagnostic Lens
The Wounded Healers Institute advocates for a paradigm shift in mental healthcare, emphasizing dissociative-informed care, recovery-focused care, and holistic healing.
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The Embodied Prediction: Reconciling the Controlled Hallucination of Consciousness with the Addiction as Dissociation Model
Author: Adam O’Brien, PhD Abstract Recent neuroscientific discourse, exemplified by Anil Seth’s theory of the “controlled hallucination,” posits that consciousness is a top-down predictive model generated to regulate the biological organism. This paper integrates Seth’s computational neuroscience with the Wounded Healers Institute’s (WHI) Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM). We argue that Seth’s “beast machine”—the biological…
