“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
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“To treat my first multiple, as to raise my first child, I had to commit myself deeply to the experience in order… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
As someone with multiple personality disorder, it is hard to explain who you are to someone when you are so many. — Carole Hanrahan Copy Share Image
“Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.” — Joan Frances Casey 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
“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
“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
“When the Jo personality first told him of the diagnosis, he called MPD "clinical bullshit." Then, seeing Jo's stricken look, he softened… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“The reported numbers of MPD alter personality states are given great play by critics. As usual, these critics rarely consult the research.… — Frank W. Putnam Copy Share Image
“Amnesia, which is a loss of memory, is a symptom of many different trauma and/or dissociative disorders, including PTSD, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative… — Ruth A. Lanius Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though… — Deborah Bray Haddock 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
“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
“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
“Dissociation, in a general sense, refers to a rigid separation of parts of experiences, including somatic experiences, consciousness, affects, perception, identity, and… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
“As Lynn began getting psychologically better, she took me to a variety of sites. She taught me how to read trail markers.… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
“Some people, who never engaged in any research about DID, claim that there is no connection between child abuse and DID. Then… — Patrick Suraci 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
“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
“Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully chronicle late- Victorian hysteria… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“clinical literature is virtually unanimous that full MPD [Multiple Personality Disorder] cannot be created iatrogenically. There is no evidence that such a… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
“000-x02 Dissociative reaction This reaction represents a type of gross personality disorganization, the basis of which is a neurotic disturbance, although the… — American Psychiatric Association Copy Share Image
“When sleep came, I would dream bad dreams. Not the baby and the big man with a cigarette-lighter dream. Another dream. The… — Alice Jamieson 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
“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
“I had a bizarre rapport with this mirror and spent a lot of time gazing into the glass to see who was… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Once I had found the courage to tell Rebecca about the children in my head, it wasn't so hard in the coming… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“[ Dr. Lois Jolyon West was cleared at Top Secret for his work on MKULTRA. ] Dr. Michael Persinger [235], another FSMF… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Several recent studies (Bliss, 1980; Boon & Draijer, 1993a; Coons & Milstein, 1986; Coons, Bowman, & Milstein, 1988; Putnam et al., 1986;… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today 3(4) pp. 26-33 Freyd: The term "multiple personality" itself assumes that there is "single personality" and there is evidence… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“Multiple personality [Dissociative Identity Disorder] should also not be confused with alternations of mood from happy to sad, characteristic of the cyclic… — Ralph Slovenko Copy Share Image
“Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“300.14* Hysterical neurosis, dissociative type* In the dissociative type, alterations may occur in the patient's state of consciousness or in his identity,… — American Psychiatric Association Copy Share Image
![“clinical literature is virtually unanimous that full MPD [Multiple Personality Disorder] cannot be created iatrogenically. There is no evidence that such a case has been demonstrated; clinicians of widely different orientations have studied the available information and arrived at similar…” quote by Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/41f/richard-p-kluft-44450_books_clinical-literature-is-virtually-unanimo_296516.jpg)
![“[ Dr. Lois Jolyon West was cleared at Top Secret for his work on MKULTRA. ] Dr. Michael Persinger [235], another FSMF Board Member, is the author of a paper entitled “Elicitation of 'Childhood Memories' in Hypnosis-Like Settings Is Associated With Complex Partial Epileptic-Like Signs For Women But…” quote by Colin A. Ross](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/aaa/colin-a-ross-35098_altered-states_dr-lois-jolyon-west-was-cleared-at-top-s_2433891.jpg)
![“Multiple personality [Dissociative Identity Disorder] should also not be confused with alternations of mood from happy to sad, characteristic of the cyclic temperament. These are merely emotional swings; personality splits are far more comprehensive.” quote by Ralph Slovenko](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a21/ralph-slovenko-271350_alter-personalities_multiple-personality-dissociative-identi_3105895.jpg)
