Emotional Dissociation in Response to Trauma

Abstract

(from the chapter) discuss the construct of emotional dissociation / describe the measures that have been used to evaluate it [and denial, avoidance, and numbing] / review the relevant literature [on these features] / discuss mechanisms that are hypothesized to underlie dissociation and . . . propose that the presence of dissociation is an indicator of incomplete emotional processing of the trauma /// information-processing perspective of emotional dissociation in response to trauma [the cognitive structure of fear, modification of the trauma structure (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).