“ Basic misunderstandings about DID encountered in the therapeuric community include the following; • The expectation that all clients with DID will present in a Sybil-like manner, with obvious switchin… Deborah Bray Haddock
“ Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces. Elyn R. Saks
“ In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions. Laurie Matthew
“ In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to:break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing... with no will of their own… Laurie Matthew
“ Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe that fathers actually raped their children, yet survivors of such ab… Laurie Matthew
“ Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and are often unsupported themselves. Rather than being supported, worker… Laurie Matthew
“ Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in these groups can be abusers with both sexes involved in all aspects of… Laurie Matthew
“ Political prisoners describe:- extreme physical and emotional torture- distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality- sham killings- begin repeatedly taken to the point of death or threatened wit… Laurie Matthew
“ Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through. Kelly DiBenedetto
“ 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
“ Psychoanalysis has suffered the accusation of being “unscientific” from its very beginnings (Schwartz, 1999). In recent years, the Berkeley literary critic Frederick Crews has renewed the assault on t… Joseph Schwartz
“ 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
“ I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me. Jonathan Harnisch
“ But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of nothing. and they all do it for themselves. Nathan Filer
“ [Talking about Monte Rissell] ...and like Ed Kemper he was able to convince the psychiatrist he was making excellent progress while he was actually killing human beings. This is kind of a sick version… John E. Douglas
