For victims of disrespect and trauma, dissociation is often lifesaving.
What children — or, for that matter, adults — generally do when exposed to physical violence or other trauma they can’t flee from or prev...
Our conscious mind — believe it or not — is not in charge of our day-to-day behaviour.That claim may seem counter intuitive and contrary to our experience, but it has been demonstrated in controlled experiments time and again. By the time our conscious mind is aware of any particular decision or action, it has already been made or enacted by some other part of our brain.
What children — or, for that matter, adults — generally do when exposed to physical violence or other trauma they can’t flee from or prev...