dissociation

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is a deficit phenomenon, an insufficiency of binding energy, caused by hereditary factors, life stresses or traumas, or an interaction among them, resulting in the splitting of fragments.

In Janet's theory, dissociation was a deficit phenomenon, an insufficiency of binding energy, caused by hereditary factors, life stresses or traumas, or an interaction among them modeled on Hughlings Jackson's hierarchy of mental functions. These processes resulted in the splitting of fragments. In Jackson's theory, dissociation had to do with a lack of integration between mental processes and especially an inaccessibility of mental contents or processes to phenomenological awareness.

Pierre Janet

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