Conference paper
Trauma and War: The Need to Relive Traumatic Events
Institute for Psychohistory Meeting (Berlin, Germany, 28 Apr 1992 - 28 Apr 1992)
1992
Abstract
The innate defense against the overwhelming nature of psychological stress is dissociation - the ability to segregate certain mental processes from the rest of the psychic apparatus. This mechanism allows the traumatized individual to split off the overwhelming affect from the experience itself, thus permitting the person to continue to function and defend himself without being paralyzed by emotion. [1st paragraph]
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- Title
- Trauma and War: The Need to Relive Traumatic Events
- Creators
- Sandra L Bloom - Drexel University, Health Management and Policy
- Conference
- Institute for Psychohistory Meeting (Berlin, Germany, 28 Apr 1992 - 28 Apr 1992)
- Number of pages
- 26
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Identifiers
- 991021903709404721