Category: Addiction

Addiction as Dissociation Model

Addiction is a dissociative response. Sounds like common sense, right? For many years we’ve operated in our practices fueled by this assumption. As individuals in

October 15, 2019

The Girl From Nowhere: Subjectivity and World Around Us

The study of subjectivity is broadly concerned with what it means to be an experiencing subject in the world. When I touch the book, “I”

August 6, 2019

Before You Talk Shit About Another Addict

If there was a category in my high school yearbook for “Most Likely to Become a Junkie,” I would not have been a contender. Indeed,

July 8, 2019

How EMDR Therapy Helped Me to Reclaim My Life

I was sitting in front of a client one afternoon as she talked to me about the rape she had experienced a few months ago.

June 25, 2019

Not So Much of a Rebel: Making Peace with the Standard EMDR Protocol

When EMDR clinicians learn that one of my specialties is addiction, I usually get asked, “Which protocol do you use? FSAP? DeTUR?” I’m often met

June 18, 2019

Does Labeling Me Really Negate Me?

Sometime in the sixth grade, I first heard philosopher Soren Kierkegaard’s wisdom, “Once you label me, you negate me.” I wish I could tell you

April 29, 2019

Can Addiction Be Made Simple?

As a trauma and addiction clinician and a person in long-term recovery from my addictions, I recognize my, and the clients I serve, need to

November 13, 2018

Lessons From My Jewish Mother in Squirrel Hill

One of the great blessings of my life is to have a Jewish mother and a Jewish family in Squirrel Hill. When I heard the

November 2, 2018

Dr. Jamie Marich Interviews Kathy Steele on Dissociation

An audio recording of an interview with Dr. Jamie Marich and Kathy Steele. Topic: Addiction and Dissociation

July 21, 2017

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