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“Michael...Michael got bitten. And now he's a vampire. But he doesn't remember becoming one, and that's a big problem. So if you see him, don't, you know, hug. He bites. He doesn't mean it, though.”
“Once I embraced the dreams that once inspired. Now I've found that there is too much I didn't recognize as a gift. I may be too late to see, cherish, and endure. I may never change, but be forever ...”
“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.,...”
“Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.”
“Psychologys service to U.S. national security has produced a variant of what the psychiatrist Robert Lifton has called, in his study of Nazi doctors, a Faustian bargain. In this case, the price pai...”
“The DID patient should be seen as a whole adult person with the identities sharing responsibility for daily life. Despite patients subjective experience of separateness, clinicians must keep in min...”
“We say, "It wasn't that bad. It was all my fault. Im making all this stuff up. "All my life, I spoke bitterly of my mother's treatment of me as a child.Friends asked, What did she do to you? I coul...”
“It all made sense terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of...”
“Sometimes waiting makes the culmination that much sweeter.”
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the artic...”
“having DID in itself creates intense shame. A person continually has to deal with not remembering what one has said or done. Thus, the person with DID must be quick with inferences and cover-ups. U...”
“Percy scowled. "I-I know you."Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?”
“Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.”
“Madmen, criminals, and rapists! Isnt it fantastic? All the romantic proposals Ive ever got from anybody. Somebody up there has an extremely dark sense of humour.”
“Matthews asked:How intimate was your relationship with Dr. Miller?Intimate? Phil still couldnt grasp what they were asking.My colleague is asking if youd ever had sex with Dr. Miller before that ev...”
“Elizabeth had amnesia and her defenses were down. Bruce had tried to take advantage of her what guy wouldnt? Unfortunately, she got her memory back just in time, ran right out of his house, and wr...”
“After writing the letter Sybil lost almost two days. "Coming to," she stumbled across what she had written just before she had dissociated and wrote to Dr. Wilbur as follows: It's just so hard to h...”
“While some accused and convicted child molesters have inappropriately influenced the media, the public, and many in the clinical and legal professions by claiming that traumatic amnesia does not oc...”
“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
