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System Speak: Dissociative Identity Disorder ( Multiple Personality Disorder ), Complex Trauma , and Dissociation Emma Sunshaw
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4.7 • 174 Ratings
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Diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder at age 36, Emma and her system share what they learn along the way about DID, dissociation, trauma, and mental health. Educational, supportive, inclusive, and inspiring, System Speak documents her healing journey through the best and worst of life in recovery through insights, conversations, and collaborations.
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Guest: Pam Stavropoulos, PhD
We welcome Pam Stavropoulos, PhD. She shares about her work with the Blue Knot Foundation in Australia, and changes in the field since 2012 and the addition of CPTSD as a diagnosis with ICD11. She discusses in depth the research behind the new Practice Guidelines for Clinical Treatment of Complex Trauma just released at the end of 2019.
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Guest: Ken Benau, PhD
Our guest today is clinical psychologist Ken Benau. He explains “relational trauma”, and why most people are not even aware of this trauma. He talks about shame and “pro-being pride”, and how they are conscious or not, and what makes each maladaptive or adaptive.
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Guest: Richard Schwartz, PhD (Internal Family Systems)
Our guest this week is Richard Schwartz, PhD, who developed the treatment model of Internal Family Systems. He explains that everyone is born “Multiple” and that “all parts are good”. He gives the history of developing the model and examples of how it works. Trigger warning for doorbell alert in background noise we were unable to edit out. There is also reference to working with a suicidal part, without any graphic details.
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Guest: Peter Barach, PhD (Telehealth Transitions)
We talk with Peter Barach, PhD, about our clinical experiences of the transition to telehealth because of COVID. He shares about the importance of eye contact in stopping flashbacks. We share about trying to cope with quarantine as a new trauma without creating a new alter. We discuss trauma triggers experienced in quarantine, including physiological responses on the PolyVagal ladder. Examples given include reference to war zones, entrapment, and foster care. Dr. Barach reviews several basic coping skills and relaxation techniques. We talk about resources like EMDR apps and interventions that support people while we wait for in person sessions resume.
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History of Trauma and Recovery
Dr. E shares about a book she discovered through a class with the ISSTD. She explores what she has learned about Charcot, Janet, and Freud. She gives the historical context of their rivalry, and how that later connected to research with veterans who had endured combat. She tells how the book explains the women’s movement as the catalyst in connecting the two, so that trauma could finally be openly discussed - much less treated. Trigger warning for mention of abuse, incest, and war experiences, but no disclosures or details given.
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Guest: Christine Forner (Cascade of Defense)
We welcome back Christine Forner, to share after the virtual ISSTD conference. She talks about the “Cascade of Defense”. She explains Active and Inactive Defenses. She gives feminist context to survivor experiences and treatment.
Customer Reviews
A most important and moving podcast
I’m a therapist and I have a trauma history and this is so healing personally and it profoundly impacts my work with folks in beautiful ways thank you and sending much love
Thank you and please continue!
You have done such a great service for so many of us. This is a game-changer. I send you all the love and appreciation one can send to a stranger! I have listened to many of your parts and I can say without a moment hesitation - you are kind, you are loving, you are good, you adore your children and - you were very very badly and unfairly hurt. Thank you for being such a brave trailblazer. You have given so much. Truly groundbreaking.
thank you
we are a newly discovered system of 5 alters. we don’t think we have DID we think we have OSDD 1a. we have a therapist but we haven’t talked to her about the system. i think this podcast will help us talk to her about our system. 4 of us are dating 3 alters in another system, it’s complicated. we usually call those three alters in that system our boyfriend even though it’s more complicated than that. our boyfriend has helped us come to terms with our system. our protector found this podcast and started playing it and it has helped us so much. their voice is just so calming. the worst part about our system (other than the trauma stuff) is that we are all boys but the body is female, we are also all autistic although a one of us is more severely autistic than the others, he’s also the youngest. often our trauma holder stays up till almost midnight just trying not to sleep because of nightmares, we are still in middle school and that makes it hard to stay awake in class, we can’t get mad at him though because he is trying to protect himself. we are all good at math and bad at english (we all have dyslexia), but every other subject we have varying skill for. we are all musicians but we each have our better instrument, i(host) am best at viola (like violin but bigger), our protector is best at guitar, our co-host is best at ukulele, our trauma holder is best at piano, our newest alter (we don’t know his role yet) is also really good at viola. our mom knows about our system but she doesn’t believe us, she also knows about our boyfriends system but she doesn’t know we are dating. our system has what we call brain rules, anytime we break a rule we have a shutdown, i don’t know all of the rules but i do know a couple: 1. avoid getting in trouble at all costs 2. if you eat or drink something and you get sick you can never have it again. those are the only two that i know but there are more. thank you to anyone who has actually read all of this i guess i could have just wrote this in our journal but i’ll leave it here for now. and thank you so much for making this podcast it really helped us. -jacob(host)
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