Best 7 quotes of Lynn I. Wilson on MyQuotes

as my understanding of and competence in treating the disorder have grown, multiple personality has come to seem, though still horrendous, less unique and incomprehensible, and thus more manageable

I have often tried to imagine how I might have acted differently. Always I end up in the same place.

It is the story of people who found each other at the right moment in their lives and performed magic. (v)

It is this honest connection behveen two human beings that, in the end, makes what we endured together understandable and meaningful.

I wish I had a magic wand to make things better, but therapy doesn't work that way.

Somehow the disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians. The flamboyance of the multiple, her intelligence and ability to conceptualize the disorder, coupled with suicidal impulses of various orders of seriousness, all seem to mask for many therapists the underlying pain, dependency, and need that are very much part of the process. In many ways, a professional dealing with a multiple in crisis is in the same position as a parent dealing with a two-year-old or with an adolescent's acting-out behavior. (236)

To treat my first multiple, as to raise my first child, I had to commit myself deeply to the experience in order to tolerate the uncertainty, fear, pain, and intensity.