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A substantial minority of DID patients report sadistic, exploitive, and coercive abuse at the hands of organized groups.

Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision


James A. Chu

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JAMES A. CHU ...the vast majority of these [dissociative identity disorder] patients have subtle presentations ch...
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JEAN SASSON The data on organised abuse has been simplified or distorted in an attempt force it to conform to me...
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⸱ The alter...
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Another trick question.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
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Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
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MICHAEL SALTER The vision of an ag park set forth in the
BioCrossroads report includes livestock, ... In
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My identity has been bent
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a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels,
a womanizer,
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ONNO VAN DER HART Early identification of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential f...
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played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
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SUZETTE BOON W- Work of Art
A- Achiever
R- Resilient
R- Radical
I- Independent
O- Organi...
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First, Comp...
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JAMES A. MURPHY Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country th...
JAMES A. MICHENER When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES A. BALDWIN When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge...
JAMES A. FORBES Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the s...
JAMES A. FORBES White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.
JAMES A. FORBES The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybod...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
JAMES A. BALDWIN I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small dif...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.
JAMES A. AUTRY They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
JAMES A. MICHENER American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything an...
JAMES A. BALDWIN If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better...
JAMES A. MICHENER If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get...
JAMES A. MURPHY I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complain...
JAMES A. MICHENER If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should...
JAMES A. GARFIELD If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit sh...
JAMES A. GARFIELD [Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been aske...
JAMES A. FROUDE Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
JAMES A. FROUDE