“I feel something change in me... I feel a flat calm, a detachment, the way I get when something is too much… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
“When the Jo personality first told him of the diagnosis, he called MPD "clinical bullshit." Then, seeing Jo's stricken look, he softened… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“Following van der Hart, Nijenhuis, and Steele’s (2006) structural theory of dissociation, a model that considers the spectrum of dissociative disorders in… — Paul Frewen 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
“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
“PART 2 I felt doomed to death, But in a flash, Before I could reduce my thoughts To an emotion, I felt… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“However, we have to acknowledge that living with DID presents huge challenges; it is complex and complicated. But our diagnosis was the… — carol broad Copy Share Image
“The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to make this point in answer to the 'iatrogenic' theory that the unveiling of repressed memories in MPD sufferers,… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
“Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
“The programme into which Cheryl was inducted combined all the different ways the intelligence community had learned could cause intense psychological change… — Cheryl Hersha 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
“The return of the voices would end in a migraine that made my whole body throb. I could do nothing except lie… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“There were other strange signals and signs. Another day, suddenly felt an almost overwhelming urge to travel to Balitmore. I wanted to… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
“Jenny couldn't believe herself a multiple. She was a mother, a nurse, not that screwball who appeared on the screen like some… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
“Every doctrine of violence and machinery of reaction has relied on his frightening it is to contemplate the crushing of hope. Far… — Gargi Bhattacharyya Copy Share Image
“The government researchers,aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They decided… — Cheryl Hersha Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
“Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It was soon after that I, overwhelmed with the implications of that memory, overdosed - well, somebody did but as it was… — Carolyn Bramhall Copy Share Image
“Most dissociative parts influence your experience from the inside rather than exert complete control, that is, through passive influence. * In fact,… — Suzette Boon 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“While reliving trauma is dramatic, frightening, and potentially self-destructive, over time a lack of presence can be even more damaging. This is… — Bessel Van Der Kolk Copy Share Image
In truth a clear-headed physicalist shouldn't be thinking any of these dualist thoughts. If pains are one and the same as C-fibres… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
“Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between… — Suzette Boon 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
“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
Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal… — James Fox Copy Share Image
“Denial is commonly found among persons with dissociative disorders. My favorite quotation from such a client is, "We are not multiple, we… — Alison Miller 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
I think that more so, my wonderful skill of dissociation came in very handy. I care very much what other people think.… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“When experiences or emotions become too overwhlming, the mind clevely encapsulates the material and stores it for safe-keeping. Many people respond this… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
“If dissociation, then, has been understood by psychopathologists to imply among other things 'loss of consciousness,' the question that immediately presents itself,… — Morton Klass Copy Share Image
