The Creativity of Dissociation
| dc.contributor.author | Braude, Stephen E. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-30T15:50:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-07-30T15:50:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-10-17 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the complex and creative strategies employed in keeping beliefs, memories, and various other mental and bodily states effectively dissociated from normal waking consciousness. First, it examines cases of hypnotic anesthesia and hypnotically induced hallucination, which illustrate: (1) our capacity for generating novel mental contents, (2) our capacity for choosing a plan of action from a wider set of options, and (3) our capacity for monitoring and responding to environmental influences threatening to undermine a dissociative state. These observations are then extended to cases involving dissociated memories of trauma. The strategies needed to maintain a dissociated belief or memory are strikingly similar to those involved in preventing our lies from being exposed. Moreover, these strategies are complex, and they potentially affect seemingly remote aspects of a person's psychology. That point is illustrated by examining the dispositional nature of both memory and belief, the complex web of relations between our mental states and other elements of our psychology, and the interrelatedness of personality states and human capacities. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | I want to thank Joy Silberg for helping me realize that my earlier observations on this matter needed elaboration. Thanks also to my colleague, Carol Voeller, and to two anonymous referees, for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. I hold them completely responsible for any flaws that remain. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J229v03n03_02?journalCode=wjtd20 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 27 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles preprints | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2ze8a-m4ic | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Stephen E. Braude (2002) The Creativity of Dissociation, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 3:3, 5-26, DOI: 10.1300/J229v03n03_02 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1300/J229v03n03_02 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/19283 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Philosophy Department | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.rights | This is an original manuscript / preprint of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Trauma & Dissociation on 17 Oct 2008, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1300/J229v03n03_02 . | |
| dc.title | The Creativity of Dissociation | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |