Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder Quotes

“Does the person report having had the experience of meeting people she does not know but who seem to know her, perhaps by a different name? Often, those with DID are thought by others to be lying because different parts will say different things which the host has no knowledge of.”
― Elizabeth F. Howell, Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder

“...when different identity states convey contradictory information and then have amnesia for what the other identity states said, the patient may be thought to be lying. This can appear to be characterological mendacity when it is not.”
― Elizabeth F. Howell, Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder

“Managers usually have extensive knowledge of events and of the system. They are often available to explain to the therapist the internal systemic dilemmas that are not otherwise evident. Generally, they are fairly empty of affect. Another term for managers has been internal self-helpers (Putnam, 1989).”
― Elizabeth F. Howell, Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder

“To preemptively protect the child so that the child may anticipate the abuse rather than be surprised by it, protector parts become persecutors modeled on the abusers. Thus, parts who were protectors when the person was a young child may become persecutors in time, holding anger and rage and meting out punishments to other parts of the self.”
― Elizabeth F. Howell, Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder

“but health is not integration. Health is the ability to stand in the spaces between realities without losing any of them.”
― Elizabeth F. Howell, Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Relational Approach