35 books
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42 voters
Multiple Personalities
133 books
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18 voters
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Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat than other experiences, and they interpret ambiguous stimuli and situations as threatening (Eyesenck, 1992), leading to more fear-driven decisions. In people with a dissociative disorder, certain parts are compelled to focus on the perception of danger. Living in trauma-time, these dissociative parts immediately perceive the present as being "
...more
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― Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
― Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
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Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up
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― Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
― Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
