Grant Hilary Brenner, M.D.,

Identity and world confusion stem from trauma and dissociation. Judith Herman observed that "the conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma" (Herman, 1992). This tension manifests in how many trauma survivors inhabit a kind of psychological superposition—simultaneously experiencing the life they have and the lives they might have had, in worlds and lives half-real, and half-imagined. Hand reaching...

The science of psychiatry is gaining on the daunting complexity of the brain. Diagnostic models in psychiatry are largely based on...