Diagnosis Quote by Marlene Steinberg

“Early identification of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential for successful treatment, because these disorders do not resolve spontaneously.”

— Marlene Steinberg

“When a client enters therapy with a prior diagnosis, it might be difficult for the therapist to think outside of the box presented. One…

— Deborah Bray Haddock

I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I…

— Roseanne Barr

“Once the individual has learned to dissociate in the context of trauma, he or she may subsequently transfer this response to other situations and…

— Julie P. Gentile

“Despite the growing clinical and research interest in dissociative symptoms and disorders, it is also true that the substantial prevalence rates for dissociative disorders…

— Paul H Blaney

“With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to convince people…

— Warwick Middleton

“Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but had been…

— Richard P. Kluft

“Patients with DID or other dissociative disorders may be misdiagnosed as Schizophrenics on account of their auditory hallucinations, distrust, feelings of depersonalization, and on…

— Etzel Cardena

“People with dissociative disorders are like actors trapped in a variety of roles. They have difficulty integrating their memories, their sense of identity and…

— David Speigel

“The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in a general urban Turkish community was 18.3%, with 1.1% having DID (ar, Akyüz, & Doan,…

— Paul H Blaney

“Dissociation, in a general sense, refers to a rigid separation of parts of experiences, including somatic experiences, consciousness, affects, perception, identity, and memory. When…

— Elizabeth F. Howell

“Following van der Hart, Nijenhuis, and Steele’s (2006) structural theory of dissociation, a model that considers the spectrum of dissociative disorders in terms of…

— Paul Frewen