dissociation

is that which enables (or causes) detachment from anticipation or actual experiences of fear, pain, and helplessness.

it is in a psychoanalytical perspective. Dissociation is a description of phenomenological facts and can be viewed as a unique form of consciousness. Dissociation enables (or causes) detachment from anticipation or actual experiences of fear, pain, and helplessness (Bremner and Brett 1997... Marmar et al. 1994... Spiegel 1990, 1993... Spiegel et al. 1988).

is the lack of connection between one piece of memory or consciousness and another.

Dissociation can be viewed as the lack of connection between one piece of memory or consciousness and another (Bremner et al. 1992). PDP can be used to model the dissociative mental processes. Both the conscious/ unconscious and the dissociation/integration (or dissociation/ association) dichotomies are descriptive in their primary purposes, with emphasis placed on the absence or presence of awareness in the former and memory or perception in the latter.

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J. Douglas Bremner