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Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment of Multiple Personality

Book by Colin A. Ross · 2 quotes · Dissociative Identity Disorder, Alter Personalities, Dissociation

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Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment of Multiple Personality Quotes

“Anna O. had a third state as well, which today would be called a hidden observer, internal self helper, or center. This was an entity described as follows: "A clear-sighted and calm observer up sat, as she put it, in a corner of her brain and looked on at all the mad business" [p. 101].”

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“Children in our culture are familiar with transformation of identity from comics, movies, television, and books. Who has not watched a child zooming around on the sidewalk or in the backyard, pretending to be a superhero or some other figure? Who can doubt the child's intensity of imaginative involvement in this transformation? I think it is reasonable to say that the normal child partly believes in this transformation on a transient basis. It is not necessary to wonder where the MPD child gets the idea of creating someone else inside to cope with the abuse. The strategy of transformation of identity to gain strength, coping power, even and vulnerability is readily available in the child's environment.”

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