Guest: Valerie Sinason

System Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociation · Feb 12, 2025 · 57m · transcript

We talk with ISSTD clinician Valerie Sinason (UK) about "infantacidal attachment".

The "still face experiment" video on YouTube is HERE.

The poem we referenced, which we wrote in 2020:

In the last week,

I watched my 5 year-old daughter's butterflies be born.

They came home with us

for quarantine,

a gift of hope and peace

while she herself is dying,

while my children miss their friends

and watch their sister fade away.

The caterpillars crawled

in the grime

as they learned to spin,

then hung themselves

from the top of the cup.

I know the feeling.

The metaphor did not escape me,

this therapeutic…