Is Dissociation Scary?

Melissa Shapiro: As therapists, we have to be really careful with the power that we hold in trying to define for somebody else what the right version of them is. And I think the larger problem is once again, the scariness around the word dissociation or specifically the DID diagnosis. She says it has been a process of learning how you can still leverage the strengths of it while addressing where it might be maladaptive and cause you issues in life. "We need to let our clients determine what's healing for them"