Philosophy of Mind Quote by Morton Klass

“Dissociation, in a general sense, refers to a rigid separation of parts of experiences, including somatic experiences, consciousness, affects, perception, identity, and memory. When…

— Elizabeth F. Howell

“Dissociation is numbness and nothingness; it is a feeling of being lost; it is floating on a cloud that threatens to suffocate; it is…

— Noel Hunter

“Trauma-related structural dissociation should be distinguished from more ubiquitous phenomena that are often termed dissociation, but likely have a different underlying process. Over the…

— Onno van der Hart

“Dissociation can be interpreted as an “emergency defense,” or a “shut off mechanism.”[6] According to Allen and Smith,[6] it is understood as an attempt…

— Julie P. Gentile

“They pointed out that, although frequently co-occurring and confounded within any specific moment, “in theory it is simple to distinguish between the symptoms of…

— Paul Frewen

“Some processes are unconscious because of deliberate dissociation. In other words, an unpleasant thought or emotion may be dissociated from consciousness not because it…

— John G. Shobris

“although those who exhibit structural division of the personality commonly exhibit altered states of consciousness, only relatively few individuals who experience altered states of…

— Paul Frewen

“People with dissociative disorders are like actors trapped in a variety of roles. They have difficulty integrating their memories, their sense of identity and…

— David Speigel

“Further evidence for the pathogenic role of dissociation has come from a largescale clinical and community study of traumatized people conducted by a task…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Dissociation leaves us disconnected from our memories, our identities and our emotions. It breaks the trauma into digestible components, so that different aspects of…

— Shahida Arabi

“The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally) going crazy.…

— Alexandra Katehakis

“Dissociative disorders are often referred to as a highly creative survival technique. This strategy is effective because while a person is dissociating, some information—particularly…

— Olga Trujillo