Traumatized Americans and Hysterical Dissociation

[numan]

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It is quite clear to me that a large percentage of Americans suffer from serious or severe mental disorders.

How to explain this situation?

The following is my modest effort to contribute to the understanding of this phenomenon.
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[Truthmatters]

hello NUMAN

 

[Truthmatters]

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[numan]

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Trauma is the standard method of controling Americans. Almost all Americans are subjected to trauma, which freezes their mentality into what Pierre Janet called "hysteria" [obsession] and "dissociation" [fragmentation of consciousness].

Janet's work is far more important than that of the fraud Freud, and so, naturally, Janet's work is almost unknown today.

A Reader's Guide To Pierre Janet: A Neglected Intellectual Heritage

A century ago there occurred a peak of interest in dissociation and the dissociative disorders, then labeled hysteria. The most important scientific and clinical investigator of this subject was Pierre Janet (1859-1947)....The evolution of his dissociation theory and its major principles are traced throughout his writings. Janet's introduction of the term "subconscious" and his concept of the existence of consciousness outside of personal awareness are explained. The viability and relevance of dissociation as the underlying phenomenon in a wide range of disorders is presented....

Pierre Janet became France's most important student of dissociation and hysteria. At that time, hysteria included a broad range of disorders now categorized in the DSM-III-R (American Psychiatric Association, 1987) as dissociative, somatization, conversion, borderline personality, and post-traumatic stress disorders. Through extensive study, observation and experiments using hypnosis in the treatment of hysteria, Janet discovered that dissociation was the underlying characteristic mechanism present in each of these disorders.

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Pierre Janet was the first person to realize the existence of the "subconscious" and invent a term for it -- not Freud !!

Unfortunately, his view of the importance of dissociation in hysteria and its treatment were abandoned when hypnosis fell into disrepute. This retreat from hypnosis at the end of the nineteenth century coincided with the publication and popularity of Freud's early psychoanalytic studies. Historically, Janet's considerable body of work was neglected in favor of the rising popularity and acceptance of Freud's psychoanalytical observations and conceptions.
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[numan]

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A description of the ideal American consumer-unit :

Janet introduced the concept of L'Automatisme Psychologique.

Janet related the origin of subconscious phenomena in hysterical patients to the narrowing of their field of consciousness. This concept refers to the reduction of the number of psychological phenomena that can be simultaneously united or integrated in one and the same personal consciousness. Some register in conscious awareness, others are relegated to a subconscious area in much the same way that central and peripheral items in a visual field are noticed. In Janet's view, narrowing the field of consciousness is one of the two basic characteristics of hysteria. The other is dissociation.
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[numan]

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Pierre Janet and the breakdown of adaptation in psychological trauma

The authors review his investigations into the mental processes that transform traumatic experiences into psychopathology. Janet was the first to systematically study dissociation as the crucial psychological process with which the organism reacts to overwhelming experiences and show that traumatic memories may be expressed as sensory perceptions, affect states, and behavioral reenactments. Janet provided a broad framework that unifies into a larger perspective the various approaches to psychological functioning which have developed along independent lines in this century. Today his integrated approach may help clarify the interrelationships among such diverse topics as memory processes, state- dependent learning, dissociative reactions, and post-traumatic psychopathology.

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[numan]

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Névroses et idées fixes, Les Obsessions et la psychasthénie, Sentiment d'incomplétude

Pierre Janet must rank with the handful of thinkers, including William James and Wilhelm Wundt, who established psychology as a discipline. Yet nowadays in Britain and America he is acknowledged merely as a contributor to early psychiatric studies of hysteria. Remarkably little is known of his ideas, although many of them have passed into common usage....[He] introduced, for the first time, terms and concepts such as ‘dissociation’, and ‘narrowing of the field of consciousness’, which are now in general use.

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[geauxtohell]

Oh, good.

Psychobabble.

 

[numan]

Oh, good.

Psychobabble.

You should understand what is being discussed, before being so quick to insult it.

Janet's researches into hysteria and dissociation have been of immense benefit to many, many people -- and have the potential to relieve and even cure the deep wounds of even more people, whom standard psychology cannot help, and often even harms!
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[Connery]

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It is quite clear to me that a large percentage of Americans suffer from serious or severe mental disorders.

How to explain this situation?

The following is my modest effort to contribute to the understanding of this phenomenon.
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Your post and position are explanation enough. Besides the more PC society gets the more there will be claims of "trauma".

 

[Mad Scientist]

I agree with Numan's well thought out treatise. I think the vast majority of Americans suffer from this condition and should be Medically Evaluated, Medicated and have their Guns taken away.

 

[Truthmatters]

hey numan why all this as if its ONLY Americans ?

 

[numan]

hey numan why all this as if its ONLY Americans ?

It is not JUST with Americans, but it is WORST with Americans, because Americans are the people in the world who are most profitable to traumatize, addle and exploit.
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[numan]

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The Dissociation Theory of Pierre Janet

According to a recent definition, "dissociation represents a process whereby certain mental functions which are ordinarily integrated with other functions...operate in a more compartmentalized or automatic way, usually outside the sphere of conscious awareness or memory recall." A similar description of dissociation was given by Pierre Janet a century ago. He was not the first to introduce this concept, but was its most important student. Janet's dissociation theory is once again receiving deserved attention. Because he focuses on the role of dissociation in traumatically induced disorders, Janet's theory is particularly relevant for research into traumatic stress. Janet commenced his studies of dissociation with observations of patients suffering from hysteria. In the late 19th century, hysteria was considered to be a broad class of mental disorders, which embraced conditions we now include under the dissociative disorders: somatization disorder, conversion disorder, borderline personality disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. It was already well known that hysteria often followed stressful life events. It was Janet, however, who explored and described the role that dissociation plays in post-traumatic hysteria.

Mental dissociation caused by trauma is much more common than most people -- including most doctors -- realize · · · particularly affecting Americans.

Perhaps it is something that is true even of YOU ! · · ·

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[Truthmatters]

what is this great trama that caused such fear in your theory?

 

[numan]

Mental dissociation caused by trauma is much more common than most people -- including most doctors -- realize · · · particularly affecting Americans.

Perhaps it is something that is true even of YOU ! · · ·

what is this great trauma that caused such fear in your theory?

It is not "my theory." It is well established and well studied fact. If you wish to give it a name, call it the work of Pierre Janet and those who came after him.
It is misleading to use the word "fear." "Hysteria" and "dissociation" are things quite different from simple fear.

It would be easier to answer what is not trauma in modern society.

Torture and stress of children by parents is trauma.

Concentration camp public schools and bullying are trauma.

Pharmacology, all too frequently, is trauma.

Crowded freeways, traffic, accidents and near-accidents are trauma.

Military training and warfare are trauma.

Police oppression and brutality are trauma.

The "Injustice" System, and the conditions inside America's Prison Gulags are trauma.

Political hype and threats are trauma.

Television "news" is filled with traumatic images, as is a great deal of so-called "entertainment."

Brain studies have revealed that the very same brain centers which are activated by real traumatic events are also stimulated by violent images on television or other media.

In truth, the brain below the level of consciousness cannot distinguish between real trauma and images of trauma.
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[numan]

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Deliberately making use of trauma [remember 9/11? remember Vietnam? remember McCarthyism?] to induce hysteria and its attendant dissociations is a well established and commonly used [though not always well understood] technique of brainwashing and social control.
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[boedicca]

An anonymous message board on the internets is really not the best place to seek help for your personality disorder.

Just sayin'.

 

[numan]

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Americans most at risk for mood swing disorder

Americans have the highest risk of developing bipolar disorder, according to a new study of 11 nations released Monday.

The study, appearing in the March issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, used surveys of more than 61,000 people. The U.S. has the highest lifetime bipolar rate at an estimated 4.4 percent --- India scored lowest at 0.1 percent.

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[waltky]

Wonder how dey can distinguish between good an' bad memories?

Memories study uncovers gene link
September 23, 2013 ~ RESEARCHERS believe they have found the gene which performs the role of memory extinction - the key to being able to delete painful memories.

In research sounding like the plot of a sci-fi film, a group of researchers believes it has found the gene which performs the role of memory extinction. The process, which occurs when new memories overwrite old ones, is being treated as the key to eventually being able to completely delete painful memories. The research could lead to medical advances and the successful treatment of those suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or sufferers tormented by earlier experiences.

Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in America conducted the study. They say that if a way can be found to amplify the activity of the gene, known as Tet1, it could change lives. The research echoes the 2004 Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which memories are wiped. As part of their study, the researchers compared learning behaviour of mice with the Tet1 to mice who had their version of the gene inhibited, or as the scientists put it, "knocked out".

Both sets were trained to fear a certain cage by giving them a mild electric shock each time they were placed inside. Mice whose Tet1 was "knocked out" learned to associate the cage with the shock, just like the normal mice. But when the researchers put the mice back in the same cage without delivering the shock, the two groups behaved differently.

To the astonishment of scientists, mice with the Tet1 gene did not fear the cage, because their memory of being hurt had already been replaced by new information. But the knockout mice, whose memories were not replaced, were still traumatised by the experience. The research appears in a September issue of the journal Neuron.

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