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Silver Mckie, BA

Doctoral Student
Washington University, St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Silver Mckie is a Dean's Distinguished Graduate Fellow pursuing a doctoral degree in medical and psychological anthropology at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. They graduated from Brown University in 2022 with degrees in both psychology and contemplative studies, holding a broad interest in questions of selfhood and consciousness, dissociation, complex trauma, embodiment, phenomenology, and transcultural psychiatry.

For the past three years, Silver has worked with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to investigate the experiences and decision-making processes of individuals who identify as both transgender and plural, where ‘plural’ is an identity label used by communities of people often diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. The first peer-reviewed results from this collaborative study were recently published in the European Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, with an additional manuscript under preparation for submission in the spring. Silver has delivered five oral presentations on these findings across the United States, including a presentation at the international World Professional Association for Transgender Health Scientific Symposium in 2022.

Silver is currently involved with a new collaborative research project utilizing multidisciplinary perspectives to investigate the process and quality of attachment relationships between individuals with dissociative disorders, including dissociative identity disorder, and their clinical providers. In summer 2025, Silver will be conducting a research study investigating the routine self-care practices supporting psychological wellbeing utilized by people diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder who face signifiacnt barriers, are unable, or are unwilling to access medically recognized therapy. Additionally, Silver assisted Dr. Ross Cheit in developing a public-facing database on memory science, trauma theory, dissociative amnesia, and cases of childhood sexual abuse.

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