“Mind control is built on lies and manipulation of attachment needs.” — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“It's as though I'm sitting in the audience caught up in a well-made film.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“Multiple personality usually develops in the presence of severe and repeated trauma, beginning at a very early age, when the personality is… — Joan Coleman Copy Share Image
“Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up” — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“The entirety of alters (or parts) which co-exist inside one physical body is known as a System .” — A.T.W Copy Share Image
“It is hardly surprising that many survivors of ritual abuse develop DID in order to preserve their own sanity.” — Joan Coleman Copy Share Image
“Many DID patients have been misdiagnosed as schizophrenics and treated with neuroleptics.” — Masatoshi Shibayama Copy Share Image
“I wish I had a magic wand to make things better, but therapy doesn't work that way.” — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“dissociating put me at higher risk for attacks in my neighborhood and at school, making me more easily identified by sexual predators” — Olga Trujillo Copy Share Image
“Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“I still didn't know very much about the complex coping mechanism that had helped me survive my childhood. It was as if… — Olga Trujillo Copy Share Image
“Many ritually abusive cults deliberately divide the personality system down the middle of the head, making sure that there is no communication… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“I honestly didn't believe I could bear any more suffering. I was convinced that the child within me was just too young… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“Also, look for “floating alters.” These are not deliberately created parts of the system, but alters that were accidentally split off at… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“I can no longer deny that bad things happened to me. I can’t be absolutely sure what happened to me, or who… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“Another of the difficulties of having DID is the denial. DID is a disorder of denial. It has to be because if… — Eve N. Adams Copy Share Image
“In fact, rather than being "more" than the others, the ANP is generally one that is very limited, with little power in… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear,… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
“Somehow the disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians. The flamboyance of the multiple, her intelligence and… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Debbie Nathan also puts a great deal of weight on a letter from Shirley Mason to Dr. Wilbur stating that her MPD… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“When a client enters therapy with a prior diagnosis, it might be difficult for the therapist to think outside of the box… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
“Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who… — Marlene Steinberg Copy Share Image
“As a single case from half a century ago, Sybil Exposed cannot tell us anything about the reliability, validity, etiology, epidemiology, or… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“I am truly crazy, I told myself. It's over. I am not fixable. I cannot tell Tom. I cannot even tell Francisco.… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear,… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“It appears that the picture of DID as the ongoing clash of polarized personality types (e.g., good girl-bad girl, upright citizen-sociopath) is… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
“The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
“I resolved to come right to the point. "Hello," I said as coldly as possible, "we've got to talk." "Yes, Bob," he… — Robert B. Oxnam Copy Share Image
“The Kinsey staff asked questions of children, learning about sexuality in the family. And other psychologists, psychiatrists and paediatricians, including Benjamin Spock,… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Dr. Talbon was struck by another very important thing. It all hung together. The stories Cheryl told — even though it was… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“The mass media stereotype of an MPD patient is a woman harboring an internal collection of delightfully different people ranging from wide-eyed… — Frank W. Putnam Copy Share Image
“As Mollie said to Dailey in the 1890s: "I am told that there are five other Mollie Fanchers, who together, make the… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“Debbie Nathan blames the early symptoms on pernicious anemia yet explains their supposed remission by Shirley’s being out of contact with Dr.… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“The Karen personality was created when Jo was nine and her mother said once too often, "Why can't you be like your… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“As an adult, it shatters me that the child parts of my mind froze at those ages, didn't develop, and continued to… — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Patients with DID or other dissociative disorders may be misdiagnosed as Schizophrenics on account of their auditory hallucinations, distrust, feelings of depersonalization,… — Etzel Cardena Copy Share Image
“It appears that DDNOS is the intentional goal of these abusers, but DID sometimes results from a failure of programming. In DDNOS,… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
