Stephen E. Braude is Chair of the Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD.
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, Vol. 3(3) 2002
ABSTRACT. This paper examines the complex and creative strategies
employed in keeping beliefs, memories, and various other mental and
bodily states effectively dissociated from normal waking consciousness.
First, it examines cases of hypnotic anesthesia and hypnotically induced
hallucination, which illustrate: (1) our capacity for generating novel
mental contents, (2) our capacity for choosing a plan of action from a
wider set of options, and (3) our capacity for monitoring and responding
to environmental influences threatening to undermine a dissociative
state.
↧