Trauma and disconnection - Brighton and Hove Psychotherapy

Trauma and disconnection - Brighton and Hove Psychotherapy

Dissociation is a term used to describe the mental process of ‘getting rid of’ painful or traumatic feelings by banishing them to a ‘nothing’ place within – for good and for bad. The paradox of dissociation is that in the process of such banishment, far from being shut down, traumatic experience can take on a life of its own. Locked away, our painful feelings are not available for processing and cannot be integrated into a coherent narrative of …