Dissociation is a continuum:
"Any healthy adult can have a dissociative experience without being sick
," says Dr Anne-Catherine Pernot-Masson, child psychiatrist (Trousseau hospital, Paris).
In the car, for example, everyone can find themselves in front of their parking space without remembering having driven: part of the brain has driven, disconnected from the rest of the brain. ”
In this case, it is an isolated experience.
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Things are very different with repetitive psychotrauma.
“They attack the brain's ability to make sense, that is, to integrate the different cognitive, emotional, physical processes into a coherent whole.
As there is no unified self-perception before 5-6 years, repeated traumas before this age will break this process of representing a whole and this is how
IDDs
are born ”
, describes Dr Laurence Carluer, neurologist, psychotherapist and researcher at Inserm (CHU de Caen).
Complex pathology
This can also be seen on brain imaging, such as
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