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Dissociation
From Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociation and Trauma Disorders
One of the strongest predictors of dissociation is antecedent trauma, particularly early childhood trauma, as well as difficulties with attachment and parental unavailability. -Bethany L Brand and Ruth A Lanius [1]
DissociationDissociation is a compartmentalization of experience, where elements of a trauma are not integrated into a unified sense of the self. {{Rp|4-810, 127}}The lay persons idea of [[dissociation]], that which exists in the normal mind, is not what is referred to in this document. {{Rp|233-234}} in trauma entails a division of an individual’s personality, i.e., of the dynamic, biopsychosocial system as a whole that determines his or her characteristic mental and behavioral actions. This division of personality constitutes a core feature of trauma. It evolves when the individual lacks the capacity to integrate adverse experiences in part or in full, can support adaptation in this context, but commonly also implies adaptive limitations. The division involves two or more insufficiently integrated dynamic, that is changeable, but excessively rigid subsystems. These subsystems exert functions, and can encompass any number of different dynamic configurations of brain, body, and environment. These different configurations manifest as dynamic actions and implied dynamic states. The dissociative subsystems can be latent, or activated in a sequence or in parallel. Each dissociative subsystemA system, within a system, is seen in otherwise specified dissociative disorder and possibly dissociative identity disorder if the individual were programmed., i.e., dissociative part of the personality includes its own, at least rudimentary person perspectives, that is, its own epistemic pluralism and epistemic dependency. As each dissociative part, the individual can interact with other dissociative parts and other individuals, at least in principle. Dissociative parts maintain permeable biopsychosocial boundaries that keep them divided, but that they can in principle dissolve. Phenomenologically, this division of the personality manifest in dissociative symptoms that can be categorized as negative or positive, and cognitive-emotional or sensorimotor. [2]
See also: Structural dissociation
References
- ^ Brand, Bethany; Lanis, Ruth (2014). Review: Chronic complex dissociative disorders and borderline personality disorder: disorders of emotion dysregulation?. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, volume 1, issue 13. (doi:10.1186/2051-6673-1-13)
- ^ Nijenhuis, Ellert. TEN REASONS FOR CONCEIVING AND CLASSIFYING POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AS A DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER. Psichiatria e Psicoterapia, volume 33, issue 1.
