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Isolation Of Affect: A Useful Self-Defence But Only If…
Isolation of affect is probably most apparent when someone refers to an emotionally loaded event or situation in a casual, matter-of-fact, or otherwise dispassionate way. This can be called for in certain circumstances, for example, in providing the distance and objectivity that a physician needs to make the right or best decisions about the care of her patients. On the other hand, too much detachment does not make for a good physician, and, like most psychological processes, detachment is best if it can be conscious and pragmatic rather than rigid and defensive.
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Dissociative Disorder: Amnesia
In dissociative amnesia, the person suffers a loss of memory, most commonly for the period surrounding the traumatic event. Such a condition has long been recognized. Already in the first century, the naturalist Pliny the Elder remarked that, ‘Nothing whatever, in man, is of so f...
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Dissociative Disorder: Possession Trance
In possession trance, the person reacts to the traumatic event by entering a dissociative state in which her identity is replaced by that of another person, animal, or inanimate object, or, more commonly, by a ghost, spirit, or deity.
In many cultures, certain form...
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Dissociation’s Basic Form: Isolation Of Feelings
The basic form of dissociation is called isolation of affect. This involves a dissociation of thoughts and feelings, with the feelings (the affect) then removed from conscious attention
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Dissociation’s Other, Less Common, But More Dramatic, Forms
Isolation of affect is very common. Other forms of dissociation, while much more dramatic, are correspondingly less common. They are usually precipitated by an intensely traumatic event, leadi...
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Self Deception Or, Ego Defences
In psychoanalytic theory, ego defenses are unconscious processes that we deploy to diffuse the fear and anxiety that arise when who we think we are or who we think we should be (our conscious ‘superego’) comes into conflict with who we really are (our unconscious ‘id’).
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Dissociative Disorder: Dissociative Stupor
In dissociative stupor, the person reacts to the traumatic event by becoming immobile and mute, failing to respond to stimuli such as the human voice, bright lights, or extremes of hot and cold.
Dissociative stupor—that is, stupor as a reaction to a trauma...
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Dissociative Fugue, Revenge, Fame And… Agatha Christie?
It should be borne in mind that, just like dissociative fugue, revenge and fame can also be construed as ego defenses.
Agatha Christie, the world’s most famous mystery writer, pulled a, now, famous vanishing act. On a cold December night in 1926, she went out in her belove...
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Dissociative Disorder: Dissociative Fugue
A fourth kind of dissociative disorder is dissociative fugue, in which the person embarks on an unexpected journey that may last for up to several months. During this journey, there is memory loss and confusion about personal identity or even assumption of another, entirely diffe...
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Dissociative Fugue: A Result Of Trauma. And Of Fame And Success.
Agatha never discussed this perplexing episode and also excluded it from her biography. Perhaps she contrived it as an act of revenge, maybe even as a publicity stunt, but a dissociative fugue is an equally likely explanation and also the one upheld by her then doctors.
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The Psychology of Self-Deception - Ego Defence 3 of 10: Dissociation
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