“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
“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
