Baffled Quote by Richard A. Chefetz

“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

“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

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

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

“Despite this documentation for both traumatic amnesia and essentially accurate delayed recall, memory science is often presented as if it supports the view that…

— Jennifer J. Freyd

“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

“Dissociative symptoms—primarily depersonalization and derealization—are elements in other DSM-IV disorders, including schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder, and in the neurologic syndrome of temporal lobe…

— James A. Chu

“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

“Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who report histories…

— Marlene Steinberg

“I had a bizarre rapport with this mirror and spent a lot of time gazing into the glass to see who was there. Sometimes…

— Alice Jamieson

“Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“People with DID often experience conflicting advice or opinions emanating from their alter personalities. Individual alter personalities may have coherent, consistent identities, but, taken…

— Marlene Steinberg

“Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that is embodied in us? It is…

— Marcel Proust

“Whatever proponents of false memory syndrome may claim and however persuasively they tell their stories and anecdotes, dissociative amnesia typically involves fragmented recall of…

— Jenny Ann Ryberg

“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

“There is a much greater skepticism toward the memories of those who claim abuse than toward the memories of those who deny it.”

— Sue Campbell