“Alterations in regulation of affect (emotion) and impulse: Almost all people who are seriously traumatized have problems in tolerating and regulating their… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“We have faced many pitfalls and negatives on our journey so far, but dissociation and dissociating gave us a methodology to cope… — Carol Broad 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
“Throughout our times with Christopher [therapist] we were encouraged to work together at communicating on the inside. He pointed out that it… — Carolyn Bramhall Copy Share Image
“But after all the years, her husband and children have come to accept that, once every few weeks, their usually warmhearted and… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
“Those who are aware of their condition and experience themselves as "multiple" might refer to themselves as "we" rather than "I." I… — Alison Miller 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
“How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“I was increasingly both horrified and sceptical about these memories - I had no recall of these things at all, though I… — Carolyn Bramhall Copy Share Image
“Trauma-related structural dissociation should be distinguished from more ubiquitous phenomena that are often termed dissociation, but likely have a different underlying process.… — Onno van der Hart Copy Share Image
“By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Our future can be brighter. We know that with the right help, continued treatment, and support we can potentially aim for partial… — carol broad 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
“The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally)… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
“There, there, best to bring it all up,' she said. My memory was in shreds. Imagine a photograph cut into narrow strips… — Alice Jamieson 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
“Janna knew - Rikki knew — and I knew, too — that becoming Dr Cameron West wouldn't make me feel a damn… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“My outsides are precise and unreliable. The illusion of self is increasingly purposeful. A sort of erasure. Inside of me, a flex.… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“This new co-consciousness brought me to a state of awareness in which my core personality was directly able to experience "her" personality.… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
