Rebecca Lester is professor of sociocultural anthropology at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri and a licensed clinical social worker. She is the author of Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent (University of California Press, 2005) and Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America (University of California Press, 2019). She has also written for Scientific American, The Conversation, and Psyche. Her current book project centers on a therapy client who presented with twelve different personalities and explores what experiences of and controversies about Dissociative Identity Disorder can teach us about new experiences of self in the digital age. She is also conducting research on polyamory in the United States as an alternative intimate and affective practice in precarious economic times, and initiating a new project on psychedelic-assisted therapies.