No, my GP hadn’t ever heard of dissociative disorders and…

“People with dissociative disorders are like actors trapped in a variety of roles. They have difficulty integrating their memories, their sense of identity and…

— David Speigel

“Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past trauma. Like everyone else, they deserve to be…

— Carol Broad

“Denial is commonly found among persons with dissociative disorders. My favorite quotation from such a client is, "We are not multiple, we made it…

— Alison Miller

“Early identification of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential for successful treatment, because these disorders do not resolve spontaneously. In…

— Marlene Steinberg

“With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to convince people…

— Warwick Middleton

“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse]. There is…

— Joan Coleman

“..."Suzette Boon also become very much involved [in dissocation]... She was in my office and was a family therapist, and when I left for…

— Onno van der Hart

“The second factor helping to bring the dissociative disorders back into the mainstream was the Vietnam War. For sociological reasons originating outside psychology and…

— Colin A. Ross

“Despite the growing clinical and research interest in dissociative symptoms and disorders, it is also true that the substantial prevalence rates for dissociative disorders…

— Paul H Blaney

“The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in a general urban Turkish community was 18.3%, with 1.1% having DID (ar, Akyüz, & Doan,…

— Paul H Blaney

“Extreme versions of DID occasionally develop in response to particularly horrific ongoing trauma (e.g., children exploited through involvement in years of forced prostitution), with…

— James A. Chu

“Dissociative disorders are often referred to as a highly creative survival technique. This strategy is effective because while a person is dissociating, some information—particularly…

— Olga Trujillo

“Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead to the…

— Elizabeth F. Howell

“Dissociative symptoms—primarily depersonalization and derealization—are elements in other DSM-IV disorders, including schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder, and in the neurologic syndrome of temporal lobe…

— James A. Chu

“Had I not been dissociative, I never would have survived.”

— Wendy Hoffman