Disassociation

Additionally, Silon stated that the coping mechanisms that accompany dissociation (e.g., splitting, detachment, denial) are integrated into the personality and may lead to the development of additional symptoms or avoidance strategies in adulthood. In other words, Silon (1992) is stating that dissociation, at least in relation to the trauma of incest and childhood sexual abuse, can lead to certain psychopathological disorders in later life.

The idea that dissociation is a component of certain psychopathological states has long been recognized in psychology/psychiatry; and in general, these conditions are referred to as forms of dissociative disorder which can be defined as a short and sudden loss of memory or alteration in identity (Barocs, Reichman & Schwebel, 1983). In dissociative disorder, a person becomes dissociated from his usual self and feels for a time "

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Jaffa (1988) assessed the performances of 169 undergraduates on clerical/motor and cognitive tasks in selective attention and divided attention conditions. Incidental learning was also assessed. Performance scores were correlated with scores on the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility. Failure to observe significant correlations between any of the measures led the authors to conclude that: The results do not support neodissociation theory despite the study's respectable convergent-discriminant validity. Although conceptual and methodological considerations were noted, the results may indicate an important limitation of the explanatory power...of neodissociation theory. (Stava & Jaffa, 1988, p.989) On the other hand, Gorassini (1987) tested another component of neodissociation theory which stated that dissociation of conscious control occurs when conditions were optimal for such an event. In his study, Gorassini (1987) utilized a task that required subjects to locate specified sentences in a textbook under these optimal conditions, as well as under conditions that were expected to mitigate against the occurrence of dissociation. The sentence-search task necessitated rehearsal for its successful completion.
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