Amnesia Quote by Elyn R. Saks

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

— Abraham Maslow

“In this chapter I restrict myself to exploring the nature of the amnesia which is reported between personality states in most people who are…

— John Morton

“Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions…

— Judith Spencer

“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too…

— David L. Calof

“Amnesia, which is a loss of memory, is a symptom of many different trauma and/or dissociative disorders, including PTSD, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative Disorder Not…

— Ruth A. Lanius

“The odd sensation I had while cooking would often last through the meal, then dissolve as I climbed the stairs. I would enter my…

— Alice Jamieson

“Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up”

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“Treating Abuse Today (Tat), 3(4), pp. 26-33 Freyd: I see what you're saying but people in psychology don't have a uniform agreement on this…

— David L. Calof

“The major goal of the Cold War mind control programs was to create dissociative symptoms and disorders, including full multiple personality disorder. The Manchurian…

— Colin A. Ross

“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

“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

I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore…

— Sally Mann