Part one of term paper
Dissociation is defined as the disconnection from self-awareness, time, and/or external circumstances. It is a very complex process. Dissociation can exists from normal everyday experiences to disorders that interfere with everyday life. Normal dissociation consists of: highway hypnosis (a trance-like feeling that develops as the miles go by ...

Part two of term paper
... flee from full awareness of their experience. Dissociation is often a defensive pattern that continues into adulthood and will result in a full-fledged dissociative disorder. Dissociative disorders main feature is a disturbance or alteration in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory, or consciousness. If the disturbance occurs in memory, Dissociative Amnesia of Fugue results; important personal events cannot be recalled. Dissociative Amnesia with loss of memory may result fr ...