“Denial is commonly found among persons with dissociative disorders. My favorite quotation from such a client is, "We are not multiple, we made it all up." I have heard this from several different clients. When I hear it, I politely… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more careful about revealing psychiatric symptoms. Unless you know that your doctor understands trauma symptoms, including dissociation, you are… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Ritually abusive groups also convince children that something evil has been put inside them. For example, a child is made to believe he or… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings which you… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Besides stage magic props and settings, ritually abusing groups use technology, such as that described by Katz and Fotheringham. Military/political groups have the most… — Alison Miller 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 another part… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“In my client who had confessed her “alien abduction” experience, an alter had been instructed that if she began to remember the ritual abuse… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“After a victim is made to participate in an act of evil, the people in charge put a lot of energy into convincing the… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“In fact, rather than being "more" than the others, the ANP is generally one that is very limited, with little power in the system,… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Because the problem of ritual abuse and mind control has not gone away - the survivors are still there - many more therapists have… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“When one of my early teachers, for instance, recognized that many ritually abused clients were still being abused while in treatment, she insisted that… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I recently consulted to a therapist who felt he had accomplished something by getting his dissociative client to remain in her ANP throughout her… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his or her… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
![“A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his or her daily life. That becomes the job of at least one ANP [apparently normal part of the personality], whom the child creates to be unaware of the abuse and also of the…” quote by Alison Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f94/alison-miller-20257_amnesia_a-child-who-is-being-abused-on-an-ongoin_1146863.jpg)