Consequences Of Dissociation Research Articles

Le « débriefing francophone » : origines, définitions, évolutions, efficacité. Trois décennies de discours spécialisé vers la thérapie du trauma

Le « débriefing francophone » : origines, définitions, évolutions, efficacité. Trois décennies de discours spécialisé vers la thérapie du trauma

The Social Consequences of Dissociation: Lessons from the Same-Sex Marriage Debate

This essay explores two problematic functions of dissociation in publicly distributed, anti-same-sex marriage talking points guides. I argue that the organizations responsible for these guides use dissociation to sidestep self-identified conflicts between their values and actions and to disguise arguments based on social animus as claims about abstract concepts such as marriage. To further the study of dissociation in public discourse, I advocate a broader view: arguments that merely attempt to create the kind of fundamental, conceptual divisions for which dissociation is known—but do not succeed—can still have social consequences and warrant close study.

“That Part of the Body is Just Gone”: Understanding and Responding to Dissociation and Physical Health

The past 2 decades have brought a significant surge in interest and research regarding the ways in which psychological trauma relates to the physical body. Researchers now understand a great deal about how the brain and the body process traumatic experiences, as well as the increased likelihood of an array of physical health consequences associated with both childhood and adult trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. Experts are increasingly challenging mind–body dualism through solid theoretical and clinical bases for the central importance of listening to and communicating with trauma clients' bodies as part of reducing the suffering and long-lasting consequences of trauma. This article integrates this growing body of knowledge through a particular focus on trauma-induced dissociation and the implications of the physical and neurological processes and consequences of dissociation on clients' ability to participate in caring for their own bodies. The author utilizes an in-depth clinical example of expanding relational trauma psychotherapy to include a focus on working directly with trauma-related sensorimotor and physiological sensations and patterns.

The Library Shelf

The term ‘hypersonic flow’ was first used by Tsien in 1946 to denote a (low for which the main stream Mach number was large compared with unity, and he demonstrated that such flows displayed characteristic features which justified the use of a special name. Tsien confined his considerations to a perfect gas with constant specific heats but since 1946 interest has widened to the flow of real fluids at high Mach numbers, this interest being mainly stimulated by the problems of the re‐entry at high speeds into the earth's atmosphere of missiles and satellites. An essential feature of hypersonic flow is that relative to the undisturbed flow direction the inclination of the nose shock of a body immersed in the fluid is of the same order of magnitude as the mean inclination of the surface over the forward part of the body, and the region between shock and body, the so‐called ‘shock layer’, is relatively narrow there. Another characteristic feature is the high temperature that developes in this layer in problems of practical interest and the associated effects on the physical and chemical properties of the medium. Thus, not only must account be taken of the variation of the specific heats with temperature for a real fluid but the consequences of dissociation and ionization of the fluid on crossing the nose shock must be considered. The interaction of the boundary layer with the flow external to it and with the nose shock becomes of increasing importance, as well as increasingly complex, with increase of main stream Mach number. Finally, account must be taken of the molecular nature of the medium in problems where the density is sufficiently low for the mean free path of the molecules to be a significant ratio of a typical dimension of the body or of its boundary layer thickness.