Silver Mckie

Bio

Silver Mckie is a doctoral student in Anthropology, broadly interested in experiences of self, consciousness, and embodiment. Situated in medical and psychological anthropology, they hold a particular interest in how those diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder navigate clinical care and self-conceptualization within the Euro-American ethnopsychological social context.

 Alongside their anthropological work, Silver is currently involved with a new collaborative research project investigating the process and quality of attachment relationships between individuals with dissociative identity disorder and their clinical providers. For the past four years, Silver has conducted archival research in public policy, childhood abuse, and memory science; while separately investigating the internal decision-making processes of people identifying as both transgender and plural.