Quote by Tim Dorsey

“I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.”

— Jane Hersey

“The government researchers,aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They decided to use…

— Cheryl Hersha Lynn Hersha

The first expert said he had attention deficit disorder. The second expert said the first was out of order. One said he was autistic,…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

“Hypobaric therapy for treating human disorders is in its infancy.”

— Steven Magee

“Trauma-related structural dissociation should be distinguished from more ubiquitous phenomena that are often termed dissociation, but likely have a different underlying process. Over the…

— Onno van der Hart

“..."Suzette Boon also become very much involved [in dissocation]... She was in my office and was a family therapist, and when I left for…

— Onno van der Hart

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

— Ambrose Bierce

“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

“We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is quite clear.…

— Robert Whitaker

“Clinically speaking, hysteria is - not only among the religious - the ability to somatize figures of speech; from a philosophical perspective, one could…

— Peter Sloterdijk

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under…

— Gene Tierney

“HYPERAROUSAL After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any…

— Judith Lewis Herman