Quotes by Warwick Middleton

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“SELFHOOD AND DISSOCIATIONThe patient with DID or dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS) has used their capacity to psychologically remove themselves from repetitive and inescapable t...”
— Warwick Middleton
abuse attachment child-abuse control

“With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to convince people of things they don't want to know.”
— Warwick Middleton
avoidance denial dissociation dissociative-disorders

“The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.”
— Warwick Middleton
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