“Somehow the disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians. The flamboyance of the multiple, her intelligence and ability to conceptualize the disorder, coupled with suicidal impulses of various orders of seriousness, all seem to mask… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Robin and Reagan are unique in that they date their creation not to a single traumatic event but to the need of the group to maintain a nonconficted, nonabreactive memory trace. The other past-keepers are both reactive and information-providing personalities-they appear in my office to give me information the system seems to think I need, or in response to my… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share
“To me, the essential task of any therapy is the same as that of lie - to recognize, experience, and affirm our common humanity… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is clear that the various personalities I am seeing are quite different from one another. The physical changes are startling. I have come to know Missy, Jo, Renee, and Joan Frances well and am no longer surprised by the move from one personality to another. In fact, I experience each of them as different from the others in the… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share
“It is the story of people who found each other at the right moment in their lives and performed magic. (v)” — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I have often tried to imagine how I might have acted differently. Always I end up in the same place.” — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is this honest connection behveen two human beings that, in the end, makes what we endured together understandable and meaningful.” — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Joan Frances says her mother is perfect someone she models herself after. She is tortured because she is disobeying her mother by seeing me.… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“What is it, sweetie," I asked. "Hair, said a voice that wasn't Missy's. It was Little Joe, a two-year-old personality, and his fingers played… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“as my understanding of and competence in treating the disorder have grown, multiple personality has come to seem, though still horrendous, less unique and… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Somehow the disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians. The flamboyance of the multiple, her intelligence and ability to… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I wish I had a magic wand to make things better, but therapy doesn't work that way.” — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“To treat my first multiple, as to raise my first child, I had to commit myself deeply to the experience in order to tolerate… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
