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“Whatever the theory, it is important to note that clinicians such as Kluft draw attention to the clinical error of insisting that all alters talk as one or that only the alter with the legal name should be validated. 'Such stances are commonly associated with therapeutic failure'.”

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Book:Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

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“While professionals and patients can be blamed for 'believing' in an illness or having one, patients also report problems when they are believed. Some professionals, they commented, have worryingly simplistic ideas of 'integration'. Ignoring the separately named alters in effect offers a psychic death sentence rather than aiding integration. If anything it can create a compliant false-self 'main person' who answers to [his or] her name and keeps all other 'states' in silent terror internally.”

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Book:Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

Source: Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

“Peg's very young alters formed around her father's abuse. But when she was 8 another alter group formed, as Peg reported, from ritualized sexual torture by a neighbor who forced Peg to ritually injure two other children. By age 13 Peg had fallen victim to her older brother's sexual violence as well and this led to more splitting. In her teens and twenties Peg added more alters in response even to nontraumatic life disappointments, since the splitting mechanism worked so well to insulate her from suffering.”

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Book:Broken Images Broken Selves: Dissociative Narratives In Clinical Practice

Source: Broken Images Broken Selves: Dissociative Narratives In Clinical Practice

“In summary, the conclusion that having DID is generally rewarding is unfounded because the vast majority of the attention such patients receive is skeptical, critical, exploitative, or hostile; they are often ignored if they do present symptoms of DID. It is certainly possible that some individuals have attempted to feign the disorder. However, the hostile treatment that one would most likely receive would make feigning another disorder more rewarding.”

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Author:David H. Gleaves

“In the world of alters, anything is possible. This is because alters are partly based upon make-believe, and the underiying reasoning is not derived from normal linear logic but consists of 'trance logic', the toleration of completely unrealistic and contradictory ideals which might be found in a state of hypnosis.”

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Book:Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices: Working with Trauma, Violation and Dissociation

Source: Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices: Working with Trauma, Violation and Dissociation

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

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

“Feeling is not faith.”

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Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Often, ritually abused and mind-controlled clients are described as being "polyfragmented," with hundreds of alters or more. Do not be overwhelmed by the number of parts.”

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Book:Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

Source: Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

“If someone can change your mind, he has won you over without raising his hand against you. This is the future of warfare.”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Break your shackles and reach out to your freedom. Break to pieces whatever indoctrination and programming that holds you hostage. The world is yours. Get possession of it.”

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Book:Pearls Of Eternity

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Beware of "don'ts", "thou shalt" and the like. These are signals of programming attempts at your brain.”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity