dissociation
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Bethany Brand, a clinical psychologist and professor emerita at Towson University who specializes in trauma and dissociative disorders, describes dissociation as “a kind of disconnection from yourself or your experience.”
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
When bouts of dissociation started to become par for the course, wearing hardware reminded me I was in a body on planet Earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
This stabilized the ions, lowered the energy required for water to split, and increased the amount of dissociation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
"I lived a dissociation effect. I had difficulties recognising myself from the start," she says.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2025
There was a dissociation of form and substance.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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