a state in which the mind is split into two or more independent streams of consciousness. 215
A disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment. The disturbance may be sudden or gradual, transient or chronic.
The mental process of disengaging from the stimuli in the external environment and attending to inner stimuli. This is a graded mental process that ranges from normative daydreaming to pathological disturbances that may include exclusive focus on an inner fantasy world, loss of identity, disorientation, perceptual disturbances or even disruptions in identity.
mind's way of dealing with the complex or difficult by splitting away from conscious awareness.
A process whereby a group of mental processes is split off from the mainstream of consciousness, or behaviour loses its relationship with the rest of the personality.
The splitting off of certain mental processes from conscious awareness. Specific symptoms of dissociation include feelings of unreality, depersonalization, and confusion about one's identity.
The process whereby thoughts and ideas can be split off from consciousness and may function independently, thus allowing conflicting opinions to be held at the same time about the same object.
a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently
this is a split in the mind in which there can be two independent streams of consciousness occurring at the same time, allowing some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others. According to some, dissociation is the foundation of hypnosis - the hypnotized person is able to maintain control of certain thoughts and behaviors, while others are being influenced by the hypnotist.
An ongoing process in which certain information(such as feelings, memories, and physical sensations) is kept apart from other information with which it would normally belogically associated. Dissociation is a psychological defense mechanism that also has psychobiological components. Generally,it is thought to originate in "...a normal process that is initially used defensively by an individual to handle traumatic experiences [that] evolves over time into a maladaptive orpathological process..." (Putnam, 1989, p. 9).
As used in this text, refers to a condition by which certain mental functions are dissociated or "separated" from others, to varying degree; in particular refers to the dissociation of sensory input and emotion from consciousness and memory.
the process whereby some ideas, feelings, or activities lose relationship to other aspects of consciousness and personality and operate automatically or independently. Can also refer to helping a patient dissociate unpleasant feeling from traumatic memories.
Process by which a mental structure loses its integrity and is replaced by two or more part-structures.
The splitting off of clusters of mental contents from conscious awareness, a mechanism central to hysterical conversion and dissociative disorder; the separation of an idea from its emotional significance and affect as seen in the inappropriate affect of schizophrenic patients.
a defence mechanism the protects the person from awareness of feelings that threaten to produce overwhelming anxiety by denying the existence of those particular feelings
Activity performed outside of normal conscious awareness, or mental processes that suggest the existence of separate centers of consciousness.
the process of mentally stepping outside of ones self.
(1) A term used for symptoms when a patient is impaired in one function but relatively unaffected in another. (2) In post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the period of numbness immediately after the trauma in which the sufferer feels estranged, socially unresponsive, and oddly unaffected by the traumatizing event.
In psychology - An unconscious process by which a group of mental processes is separated from the rest of the thought processes, resulting in an independent functioning of these processes and a loss of the usual relationships; for example, a separation of affect from cognition.
A psychological separation of "splitting off"; an intrapsychic defensive process, which operates automatically and unconsciously. Through its operation, emotional significance and affect are separated and detached from an idea, situation, or object.
Involuntary mental and emotional distance or separation from events resembling a self-hypnotic state.
disruption of normal consciousness. Often occurs during the holiday season, planning a wedding, and during graduate school.
A mental process involving the disjoining of behaviors, affects, sensations and knowledge that are normally associated in ordinary waking consciousness; separation and fragmentation. The exaggeration of normal subject/object ("self/not-self") differentiation; the perceptual/experiential disincorporation of that which is generally agreed to be (part of) "self" from that which is also generally agreed to be (part of) "self." See text, Chapters 5 and 10. See also, " Altered States of Consciousness," " association," " consciousness," " hallucination," "hypnosis," "regression," " State of Consciousness" and " Transpersonal Consciousness."
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders considers symptoms such as depersonalization, derealization, and psychogenic amnesia as core features of dissociation. However, in the normal population mild dissociative experiences are highly prevalent, with 80% to 90% of the respondents indicating that they experience dissociative experiences at least some of the time.
A process in which a body of awareness (perceptual, memory, physical) becomes separated or blocked from the main center of consciousness; examples are trance-speaking, automatic writing, amnesia, multiple personality, and so on; thought by some to be a psi-conducive state.