ABSTRACT
At the start of recovery, most multiples have internal battles for control. Parts will express anger and even hatred for one another, including for the adult whose head or body they inhabit. And the adult front person often hates or resents the insiders, hearing them as threatening or frightening voices. It is hard for all parts, including the front person, to realise that they are all legitimate parts of a greater whole, and to respect the way in which each of them helped that person survive the extreme situation in which you all grew up. Insiders who were named by the abusers sometimes have names that reflect their roles in the abuse. Many survivors have parts trained to set off internal world disasters, which are actually memories of things that were done in childhood. Inner world earthquakes are originally created by abusers shaking up both the child and the model that child has created of his or her inner world.
