“Multiple personality usually develops in the presence of severe and repeated trauma, beginning at a very early age, when the personality is… — Joan Coleman Copy Share Image
As someone with multiple personality disorder, it is hard to explain who you are to someone when you are so many. — Carole Hanrahan Copy Share Image
“Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop… — Flora Rheta Schreiber 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… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
“Multiple personality [Dissociative Identity Disorder] should also not be confused with alternations of mood from happy to sad, characteristic of the cyclic… — Ralph Slovenko 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
“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
“The reported numbers of MPD alter personality states are given great play by critics. As usual, these critics rarely consult the research.… — Frank W. Putnam Copy Share Image
“Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who… — Marlene Steinberg Copy Share Image
“I am truly crazy, I told myself. It's over. I am not fixable. I cannot tell Tom. I cannot even tell Francisco.… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“Despite the growing clinical and research interest in dissociative symptoms and disorders, it is also true that the substantial prevalence rates for… — Paul H Blaney Copy Share Image
“It is now recognised that dissociation is a way of forgetting, for a time. The mind siphons off the bad memories into… — Carolyn Bramhall Copy Share Image
“As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and… — Deborah Bray Haddock 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
“Debbie Nathan’s thesis is that Shirley Mason was a vulnerable hysteric and was manipulated by her therapist into iatrogenic DID and false… — Colin A. Ross 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
“Some people, who never engaged in any research about DID, claim that there is no connection between child abuse and DID. Then… — Patrick Suraci Copy Share Image
“Dr. Lois Jolyon West was cleared at Top Secret for his work on MKULTRA. West's numerous connections to the mind control network… — Colin A. Ross 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
“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
“Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be… — Graeme Galton 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
“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
“I remembered during puberty, through the anorexic mists of intermittent menstrual cycles, that man, my father, lifting Shirley's nightdress over her head… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments', which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I… — Suzie Burke 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
“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
“Treating Abuse Today 3(4) pp. 26-33 Freyd: The term "multiple personality" itself assumes that there is "single personality" and there is evidence… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“Several recent studies (Bliss, 1980; Boon & Draijer, 1993a; Coons & Milstein, 1986; Coons, Bowman, & Milstein, 1988; Putnam et al., 1986;… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
“Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
“As Mollie said to Dailey in the 1890s: "I am told that there are five other Mollie Fanchers, who together, make the… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“Once I had found the courage to tell Rebecca about the children in my head, it wasn't so hard in the coming… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Another of the difficulties of having DID is the denial. DID is a disorder of denial. It has to be because if… — Eve N. Adams 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
“Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past trauma. Like everyone else, they deserve… — Carol Broad Copy Share Image
![“Multiple personality [Dissociative Identity Disorder] should also not be confused with alternations of mood from happy to sad, characteristic of the cyclic temperament. These are merely emotional swings; personality splits are far more comprehensive.” quote by Ralph Slovenko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a21/ralph-slovenko-271350_alter-personalities_multiple-personality-dissociative-identi_3105895.jpg)
