#the haunted self

[funeral]

Van der Hart et al., The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization

#trauma #psychology #excerpts #quotes #p #the haunted self

[sysciety]

I think the most interesting part from The Haunted Self that I've read so far was the chapter on Primary Structural Dissociation. I initially skipped over it since I was trying to find something specific from the next couple of chapters but I'm glad I went back.

Primary structural dissociation is the type associated to ptsd and c-ptsd. It's not really linked with CDDs since those fall under secondary/tertiary dissociation. But the book talks about how even in primary structural dissociation there are cases where the anp and ep are more separate from each other - not to the level of elaboration that a cdd would contain, but still where the patient described the ep as somewhat separated from them (one example had an ep who was a different age and viewed the anp as another example, though notably that person had experienced childhood trauma)

It also talks about how switching between parts has been observed in cases of (c)-ptsd and talks about WW1 veterans switching from ep to anp once having left battle. It's not like switching in CDDs (it even specifies as a clinical term switching should be used only for those) where switching is between autonomous parts but describes the ep and anp in terms of their reactions and perceptions of the world. (Ex - a person's perception of x thing might change suddenly and that'd be the indicator of a switch - though their sense of identity remains the same)

I've said it before but I don't think system and singlet are the dichotomy people make them out to be - in both experience and, well, who exactly qualifies under "a person with with multiple parts."

Ptsd on its own is obviously not a system causing disorder. Most people with it would probably consider themselves singlets without a second thought. But it's still something really interesting to me to think about when it comes to the way dissociation affects the brain.

#(post i wrote up a bit ago that was saved in drafts) #kind of an infodump on chapter 2 but whatever this is my soapbox #I'm a first time reader on primary structural dissociation #so if I'm understanding anything wrong feel free to correct me #the haunted self #actually traumagenic #actually dissociative #actually osdd #actually did #osddid #system stuff #dissociative identity disorder #osdd #not really system related but system adjacent #pwCDDs might find it interesting idk #cdd system #cdd tarts

[cytserquotes]

Each dissociative part has personified at least some degree of sense of self: “I feel; I think, I hurt; I know.” But personification may be extremely limited when a part has only realized a minimal amount of experience out of the individual’s entire history, such as a few fragmentary moments within an extended traumatic event. Some parts have engaged in little more than core personification involving the short moments of time in which they are fixated, hence lack extended personification. Such parts have a small basis of realization and, accordingly, a small range of action tendencies. For example, in simple PTSD, a single EP may encompass little more than one (core) personified traumatic experience and memory involving synthesis of pain sensations and fear. The more experience a survivor has personified within a dissociative part of the personality across time, the more elaborate this part’s autobiographical self will be and the more types of actions this part can engage in.

- The Haunted Self, Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, and Kathy Steele

#personification #structural dissociation #ptsd #ep #fragments #parts #flashbacks #the haunted self #onno van der hart #ellert r s nijenhuis #kathy steele

[heavyskysystem]

#did #multiple #dissociative identity disorder #protector alter #protector #plurality #the haunted self

[cantarelaria]

head disciple shen yuan and his two little shidis who for some reason keep sneaking into the beast tamer peak ⛰️🐉

#this au has been haunting my brain so now i'm making it everyone else's problem #i just love when sy gets the chance to be a nerd about beasts #svsss #scum villian self saving system #shen yuan #shen jiu #liu qingge #my art #beast peak au

[bigschlongus345weed]

Me when… me when… the identity is horror. Who are you? Can you be replicated? Is that replication you? If someone looks just like you, acts like you and is interpreted by others as you, are they you? Do your thoughts count for anything? If everything you actually think stays in your head and never comes out then you die do people grieve you? Do you respond to your name or to any name?

#soma game #whos lila #perfect blue #us 2019 #doppleganger #uncanny valley #american psycho #lake mungo #horror #psychological horror #*charlie day Pepe Silvia voice* You know your haunted by the ghost of yourself? The absence of who you are. It’s the alienation of self. #the mandela catalogue #greylock #unreality #black swan

[gallusgalluss]

at rest

#weird horsething time #the face of someone who's totally not constantly haunted by their past self because of selfish actions they've fully decided to make #i have a lot of Kebab thoughts. this unicorn i made up #art #drey draws #drey's ocs #Kebab

[malinaa]

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins CHAPTER 26 / CHAPTER 27 / EPILOGUE

#as always. the mf who always focuses on names focused on names! #lit #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #photo #tais toi lys #thgpost #* #the self-fulfilling prophecy of her name. the tragedy that could only ever be a tragedy. lucy gray who haunts snow for years to come. #lucy gray who lives as a ghost in each victor‚ who died because of snow. lucy gray who remains a mystery‚ forgotten to everyone in time but #the birds. lucy gray‚ the performer. lucy gray‚ the girl who fell in love with snow and was buried under it. #lucy gray baird: the mockingjay who started it all

[aterfish]

Best puppers✨

#thank u haunting heroes discord server for giving me ideas #this one goes to u finemeal #danny phantom #phandom #dp #dp cujo #jeff the land shark #marvel #ater art #self care is drawing puppies when you should work #also this is the most pastel drawing ive ever done im shooketh #anyway back to work

[liberaljane]

As a chronically ill person, my body is NOT a temple!

digital illustration of a large pink and green haunted house with ghosts and stars. text reads, 'my body is not a temple, it is a haunted house.'

#art #illustration #ghost #halloween #halloween art #spooky art #spooktober #inktober #haunted house #mansion #my body is a temple #self care #self love

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Joan Tierney Why Are You Haunted? / @/oceaii (tumblr) / Liv Ullmann Changing / The Elektra Complex / Rosario Castellanos Monologue of a Foreign Woman from "Meditation on the Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology of Poetry / unknown / @/violentcherries (tumblr) / @/nutnoce (tumblr) / Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea / unknown

i. Joan Tierney Why Are You Haunted? [ "This haunting is architectural. It is not about you. It is about where you are. There are bones in the foundation. This house is a graveyard. This house is a corpse. You are inside the corpse. That makes you the maggot." ]

ii. @/oceaii (tumblr) [ Black and white illustration of a deer. The deer looks forwards in the first panel and turns back to face the audience in the second panel. "Turn and face / the person you've become." ]

iii. Liv Ullmann Changing [ "I will never forget the loneliness I knew as a child. For a period in my life I hid behind a mask. Did not want to acknowledge any longing. / Now it is a part of me-something I can share. / Both the loneliness and the longing." ]

iv. The Elektra Complex [ "If you were to peel the skin of me apart as a fig's, you would finally understand. I am my mother's daughter. From poisoned seeds sprout poisoned fruits." ]

v. Rosario Castellanos Monologue of a Foreign Woman [ "I didn't want / to be the dead star / that uses borrowed light to survive." ]

vi. unknown [ Black and white illustration of two deer. They are both labeled with words. The deer in the background says "just be." The deer in the foreground replies "just being is the hardest part." ]

vii. @/violentcherries (tumblr) [ "the environment you are not thriving in is not yours forever / IT'S OKAY TO LEAVE / ... / IT'S OKAY to abandon the things you used to love" ]

viii. @/nutnoce (tumblr) [ Black and white illustration of a scorpion doing chores. It's tail just barely curls over the front of a clothes line. Various pairs of socks hang from the clothes line. It stands before a bucket with more clothes inside. "I come from the toughest, meanest place you can imagine. / I want to be gentle, I want to die gently, but / It seems that when life gets hard / I have to get harder to match." ]

ix. Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea [ "I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar." ]

x. unknown [ "1. Man is a MORAL animal. / 2. You can get human beings to do anything - IF you can convince them it is moral. / 3. You can convince human beings that anything is moral." ]

#joan tierney #why are you haunted? #liv ullmann #changing #the elektra complex #rosario castellanos #monologue of a foreign woman #meditation on the threshold: a bilingual anthology of poetry #jean paul sartre #nausea #poetry #poem #words #writing #text #web weave #poetry web weave #web weaving #on heartbreak #on self destruction #on anger #on rage #quote #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #dark academia #light academia #spilled poetry #dark academia quote #dark academia poetry

[funeral]

Van der Hart et al., The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization

#the haunted self #excerpts #quotes #trauma #dissociation #psychology #p

[ecoamerica]

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#ACLA24 #ACLA24Leaders #youtube #youtube video #climate leaders #climate solutions #climate action #climate and environment #climate #climate change #climate and health #climate blog #climate justice #climate news #weather and climate #environmental news #environment #environmental awareness #environment and health #environmental #environmental issues #environmental justice #environment protection #environmental health #Youtube

[wu-does-art]

remember?

#i feel like mike would kinda be reminded at the worst times abt things he said as a kid but still believes now #and it comes back to haunt him that despite all the rush in growing up that most of the time his 10 yr old self is more right than him now #byler #stranger things #mike wheeler #st mike wheeler #mike wheeler stranger things #st mike #will byers #st will #stranger things fanart #byler fanart #miwi

[cytserquotes]

Core personification is the ability to make experience our own in a present moment (cf., Damasio, 1999; Edelman & Tononi, 2000; D.N. Stern, 2004), which stimulates us to take responsibility for engaging in immediate mental or behavioral actions. For example, when we personify our current bodily or emotional feelings, we might say, “I feel tired, ” and take care of ourselves by resting. When we do not engage in core personification, we will not experience such feelings as our own, fail to act on them, or merely act reflexively. Many trauma survivors do not sufficiently personify their mental and behavioral actions, feelings, thoughts, and behavioral actions in a given moment. This leaves them depersonalized. For example, they may experience as ANP, “I am on an automatic pilot; I know I’m here, but it does not feel that way.”

- The Haunted Self, Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, and Kathy Steele

#personification #mindfulness #this is why it's helpful to say out loud how you feel / what you're thinking when you feel yourself go into 'autopilot' #if your brain isn't doing it automatically then you need to consciously personify your experiences #it's not an instant fix but in my experience it does help #the haunted self #onno van der hart #ellert r s nijenhuis #kathy steele #integration

[metamorphesque]

the walls of my bedroom have grown hands and are choking me to death

#self portrait #colourless musings #a girl is a haunted house

[wyrmswears]

jay dump

#yess i know the jerma one has been done before but I WANTED TO DO IT TOO!! #also i havent seen anyone change the text for the jerma one yet #ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #ninjago jay #jay walker #jay (sorta) fucking died au is because i was like wow wonder how jay would react to seeing himself with an office job and amnesia #and so now he gets to. and amnesiac jay gets to be haunted by his literal past self #what joy #blood tw #tw blood #gif #lego ninjago #wyrm draws #suit jay #ill prolly be posting less art over the next few weeks because i have exams #then im gonna work on some ask art (anon who wanted cole and amnesiac jay i will draw it.. eventually) #ninjago au #ninjago dr spoilers #ninjago dragons rising spoilers #dragons rising spoilers