“Each alter personality had a common goal and raison d'etre, namely my survival. They didn't all realize that though, and so were… — Carolyn Bramhall Copy Share Image
“Cheryl's growing awareness of her emotional difficulties was leading her to research multiple personality. As she had learned more about dissociation, she… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“In 1953, Allen Dulles, then director of the USA Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), named Dr Sidney Gottlieb to direct the CIA's MKULTRA… — Orit Badouk Epstein Copy Share Image
“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“In the absence of strong political movements for human rights, the active process of bearing witness inevitably gives way to the active… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Joe knew that for some, really for most, the derivations of belladonna that blurred their vision and caused their hearts to race… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
“But I will stretch my toes so that they touch the rail at the end of the bed; I will assure myself,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The "apparently normal personality" - the alter you view as "the client" You should not assume that the adult who function in… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing… — Marilyn Van Derbur Copy Share Image
“The door suddenly jerks open. A wide-eyed teenager bursts out. She stares at me in dazed horror. In a strange way, I… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“The men and women who continue to hold Lynn's mind hostage against her will believe the future will be tilled with terrorism,… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“On its own, my internal dissociated part now came to the surface, and I found myself hiding from everyone. I still was… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“But as much as this is a soldier's reason d'etre, it is not often that you hear a soldier explicitly talk about… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
“I'm back in the basement of the Ascension Catholic Church, Francisco. And Little Suzie is here. She's lying on an alter, and… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“Secondary structural dissociation involves one ANP and more than one EP. Examples of secondary structural dissociation are complex PTSD, complex forms of… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
There is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to have your partner tell you he or she has multiple personalities, and it's another to walk in on… — Tracy Alderman Copy Share Image
“Patrice had long since buried the particulars of events so painful that they caused her to resolve only to see good. With… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
“Ritual abuse diagnosis research – excerpt from a chapter in: Lacter, E. & Lehman, K. (2008).Guidelines to Differential Diagnosis between Schizophrenia and… — Randy Noblitt Copy Share Image
“Denial is our very real, personal response to our own trauma. But denial is the normative response to trauma—by everyone. Society may… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
