20/10/2023
''That horrible thing is not happening to me; it is happening to that body!''
Does it sound familiar? Let's call it ''Dissociation''. But what's that?
As cited in a recent study by Loewenstein, 2022: ''The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5) defines dissociation as a disruption, interruption, and/or discontinuity of the normal, subjective integration of behavior, memory, identity, consciousness, emotion, perception, body representation, and motor control. A number of lines of evidence support conceptualizing dissociation as the human equivalent of the animal or , protective response in the face of life-threatening danger, where fight/flight has failed or would be more dangerous.
But what about Dissociation within a controlled environment?
Military Survival, Evasions, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) trainees showed significant differences between pretest and posttest scores on the Clinician Administered Dissociative States Scale (CADSS). Higher dissociation scores were associated with poorer performance and significantly correlated with lower cortisol levels. The cortisol/dissociation finding supports the model that dissociation is related to decreased activation of the sympathetic stress system.''
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Controversy about dissociation and the dissociative disorders (DD) has existed since the beginning of modern psychiatry and psychology. Even among professionals, beliefs about dissociation/DD often...
