Does dissociation cut people out of their experience?
No, it just places them in a different “position” regarding their own experience. Q: In what kind of situations is it inappropriate to have a dissociated state? A: There are some people who spend most of their time in a dissociated state. Dissociation is useful to you in negative situations, but it can impoverish your more pleasurable experiences. For example, can you imagine really enjoying a sexual experience while in a dissociated state? Yet there are people who engage in sexual activity in a dissociated state and, hot surprisingly, some of these people experience sexual dysfunction. If they aren’t associated into the experience, they aren’t feeling first hand what is happening to their bodies, hearing the sounds that go with lovemaking, seeing their partner’s face and body, smelling and tasting what’s there to smell and taste. If what they are doing is watching the interaction from a detached, observer’s position, it isn’t surprising that they don’t experience real sexual fulfillme
Related Questions
- Why has the CMR Board adopted January 1 1997 as the cut off date, after which practice experience does not qualify a practitioner for registration and they have to have an approved qualification?
- What are my chances of completing a Music Theatre degree? Are people cut from the program, as they are at many schools, after sophomore year?
- Whats the festival experience been like? Did you get different reactions from people not in New York?
