Abuse Quote by Suzie Burke

“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 psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Sometimes we disfigure ourselves by what we think about ourselves rather than by what we do to ourselves. Some people have been disfigured emotionally…

— H. Norman Wright

“Dissociative Identity Disorder is the most extreme form of PTSD and is the result of the child's desperate attempt to survive and adapt to…

— Lynette S. Danylchuk

“‎I don't suffer from dissociative identity disorder but my other personalities do.”

— Jaime Johnesee

“Dissociation leaves us disconnected from our memories, our identities and our emotions. It breaks the trauma into digestible components, so that different aspects of…

— Shahida Arabi

“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

“There is child abuse, and there are such things as repressed memories. But there are also such things as false memories and confabulations, and…

— Carl Sagan

“When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma.”

— Macdougall John

“The only real, true, permanent way to destroy your mind control is to work through the memories. It's unfortunate because it's unpleasant. It hurts…

— Alison Miller

“Your repressed feelings desperately try to climb to the surface but fail to do so, and in therapy we seek to reveal -- to…

— Allan Dare Pearce

“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