“ Dissociative Disorders have a high rate of responsiveness to therapy and that with proper treatment, their prognosis is quite good. Marlene Steinberg
“ Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse]. There is inadequate recognition within ment… Joan Coleman
“ Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions engendered by the assaults on soul an… Judith Spencer
“ Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more careful about revealing psychiatric symptoms. Unless you know that your docto… Alison Miller
“ Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leaves a large part of the personality unaffected by the trauma. Bessel A. van der Kolk
“ Despite the growing clinical and research interest in dissociative symptoms and disorders, it is also true that the substantial prevalence rates for dissociative disorders are still disproportional to… Paul H. Blaney
“ In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can do the same with the causes and reality of dissociation and multiplici… Carolyn Spring
“ I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I couldn’t tell the doctor what I had done to cut myself—I didn’t have any memory of it. The ER doctor w… Bessel A. van der Kolk
“ The primary driver to pathological dissociation is attachment disorganization in early life: when that is followed by severe and repeated trauma, then a major disorder of structural dissociation is cr… Frank M. Corrigan
“ Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past trauma. Like everyone else, they deserve to be heard and recognised, not stigmatised. Carol Broad
“ There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissociative disorders. Diagnoses need to be more obtainable within the NHS; people's lives should be placed… Carol Broad
“ We can think of dissociation as psychological disconnection from one or more of three major spheres of experience: (a) the here and now, i.e., orientation to time and place; (b) other people, i.e., in… Steven N. Gold
“ Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced. Judith Lewis Herman
“ However, we have to acknowledge that living with DID presents huge challenges; it is complex and complicated. But our diagnosis was the key to us accessing services and funding, which has enabled us t… Carol Broad
“ The essential feature of the Dissociative Disorders is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity,or perception American Psychiatric Association
“ Beneath the surface of the protective parts of trauma survivors there exists an undamaged essence, a Self that is confident, curious, and calm, a Self that has been sheltered from destruction by the v… Bessel A. van der Kolk
“ Some mental healthcare workers are aware of clients with high needs, such as dissociative disorders and personality disorders, who have histories of sexual abuse (contact offences), usually from early… Michael Salter
“ 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
“ Early identification of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential for successful treatment, because these disorders do not resolve spontaneously. In addition, dissociati… Marlene Steinberg
“ Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55 Marlene Steinberg
