as my understanding of and competence in treating the…

“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too…

— David L. Calof

“We have faced many pitfalls and negatives on our journey so far, but dissociation and dissociating gave us a methodology to cope with the…

— Carol Broad

“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

“Dissociative Identity Disorder is the most extreme form of PTSD and is the result of the child's desperate attempt to survive and adapt to…

— Lynette S. Danylchuk

“Once the individual has learned to dissociate in the context of trauma, he or she may subsequently transfer this response to other situations and…

— Julie P. Gentile

“A problem is that Nathan documents Shirley Mason as suffering from a variety of symptoms of a complex dissociative disorder prior to her first…

— Colin A. Ross

“Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm,…

— Alison Miller

“dissociating put me at higher risk for attacks in my neighborhood and at school, making me more easily identified by sexual predators”

— Olga Trujillo

“The major goal of the Cold War mind control programs was to create dissociative symptoms and disorders, including full multiple personality disorder. The Manchurian…

— Colin A. Ross

“Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but had been…

— Richard P. Kluft

“In 1973 Flora Schreiber wrote SYBIL, a case history of a person with DID. After Schreiber’s death in 1988 there have been several unsuccessful…

— Patrick Suraci

“Now that she had the diagnosis to explain her sense of reality, she sorted some of the chaotic jumble of thoughts and memories. "I'd…

— Joan Frances Casey

“300.14* Hysterical neurosis, dissociative type* In the dissociative type, alterations may occur in the patient's state of consciousness or in his identity, to produce…

— American Psychiatric Association

“The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment…

— Warwick Middleton

“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