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The Library With the Lights Off
CW: dissociation/depersonalization, discussion of trauma survival mechanisms
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Libby Banks
Rashomon Brain
CW: discusses trauma processing, dissociation, flashbacks (non-graphic)
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Libby Banks
Someone Who Could Finally Take Care of Me
On being hard to care for, unmasking in mutual design, and what people see when it finally works
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Libby Banks
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Special Edition Field Manual: Practicing in the Gaps
Providing Radical Therapy While Billing Insurance
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Libby Banks
The Click That Made Me Make Sense: BDD, Chronic Pain, and the Body’s Quiet Corrections
CW: Body dysmorphia, BDD (body dysmorphic disorder), dissociation, chronic pain, EDS/chronic illness, description of perceptual distortion
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Libby Banks

July 2025

Smart or Oh So Pleasant? I Dissociated Into Both
Elwood P.
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Libby Banks
Four Subtypes? Why That’s the Least Interesting Part of the New Autism Study
Scientific American recently published an article about a Nature Genetics paper that SA described as having identified “four subtypes of autism…
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Libby Banks
What Venus de Milo Taught Me About "Broken" Bodies
(And why Wyatt calling me "masterpiece" wasn’t just romantic - it was precise)
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Libby Banks
High-Masking Isn’t Low Needs - It’s Expensive Survival
"You seem fine!" they proclaimed, congratulating my camouflaged collapse, mistaking borrowed functionality for comfort.
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Libby Banks
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Reclaiming Rogers’ Revolution From Therapy’s Neutrality Trap
My first weeks of graduate school, I learned two things about Carl Rogers: first, that I could mirror "unconditional positive regard" so perfectly in…
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Libby Banks

June 2025

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