The Stranger in the Mirror by Marlene Steinberg

When it’s at its most severe, the person dissociating could experience amnesia, loss of identity, and an inability to recognize themselves or their surroundings.Īccording to Bethany Brand, a clinical psychologist and expert in trauma and dissociative disorders, “All of us dissociate to some extent.” The problem, she said, is that “there is confusion over what that means”-even among psychologists.īrand said dissociation is best understood as a continuum of experiences.

But the essay and the Twitter discourse do reveal that some people need clarification on what the hell this word actually means, what it’s like to experience it, and whether talking glibly about mental health-or even “performing” it-is inherently a bad thing.ĭissociation is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as an experience of mental detachment, or disconnection between the mind and body, an unconscious coping mechanism that typically develops in response to trauma. While it’s certainly en vogue to hint at your existential despair in a deadpan, detached tone, rather than rant or wallow earnestly-especially among the sad girls of the internet-Cline’s suggestion that the act of dissociating is a choice (“Most girls learn to dissociate early,” she writes), or indicates a new type of feminism, feels overblown. Cline suggests that by dissociating-instead of throwing a fit (like Girls’ Hannah Horvath would) or leaning in (like a #girlboss stymied by systemic sexism would)-the wounded woman becomes more palatable: “the cool girl or chill girl’s cousin.” (Author), Maxine Schnall (Author) out of 5 stars ratingsCited by: The Stranger in the Mirror: Dissociation – The Hidden Epidemic, written by Marlene Steinberg and Maxine Schnall is a book which goes through case files of individuals with dissociative identity disorder, who have suffered traumatizing happenings and how they have employed dissociation as a defense mechanism to detach themselves from the emotional stimuli which the victims endured.Further fogging up the dis-course, writer Emmeline Cline recently published an essay on BuzzFeed in which she called dissociating a “new trend in feminism,” citing Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s character in Fleabag as the poster woman for a new performative nihilism. The Stranger In The Mirror Paperback – Illustrated, October 9, by Marlene Steinberg M.D.

Presents information on the book 'Stranger in the Mirror,' by psychiatrist Marlene Steinberg which focused on Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).

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The Stranger in the Mirror by Marlene Steinberg