Snow girl was glad she had left her own feelings behind.

“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster in the…

— Michael Salter

“The word is dissociate. There is no 'a' before the 'ss'. People invariably say dis-a-ssociate, which, if you're suffering Disso-ciative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder,…

— Alice Jamieson

“although those who exhibit structural division of the personality commonly exhibit altered states of consciousness, only relatively few individuals who experience altered states of…

— Paul Frewen

“It’s hard to feel supported when you can’t tell people everything. People haven’t really got a clue what it’s like. It’s hard to trust…

— Alice Jamieson

“Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have been provided…

— Valerie Sinason

In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or…

— Ezra Pound

“Most dissociative parts influence your experience from the inside rather than exert complete control, that is, through passive influence. * In fact, many parts…

— Suzette Boon

“Not knowing trauma or experiencing or remembering it in a dissociative way is not a passive shutdown of perception or of memory. Not knowing…

— Dori Laub

“She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

“If I was set an essay on Friday, I’d spend three hours on Saturday morning in the library. Was that normal? I didn’t know.…

— Alice Jamieson

“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

“Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow bottles of…

— Alice Jamieson

“There were other strange signals and signs. Another day, suddenly felt an almost overwhelming urge to travel to Balitmore. I wanted to 'kidnap' a…

— Cheryl Hersha

“Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent to this…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“PART 2 I felt doomed to death, But in a flash, Before I could reduce my thoughts To an emotion, I felt a mass…

— Alice Jamieson