Consciousness loss and long-term memory loss {dissociation defense mechanism} {dissociation state} {dissociation reaction} {dissociative reaction} are similar defense mechanisms. Repression includes dissociation. Dissociation states are conscious and aware, with experienced sense qualities but with altered perspective.
amnesia
Amnesia without physical cause typically is an attempt to escape from social stress using dissociation.
hypnosis
Dissociation, not to suggestion, cause anesthesia and analgesia under hypnosis.
hysteria
Hysteria involves dissociation.
identity
Schizophrenia, dissociative identity disorder, and other diseases show abnormal experience of identity (Ich-Störungen).
split personality
Dissociation can result in feeling that, or acting as if, one person is two different people at once {split personality}, two different people at different times {dual personality}, or more than one different people at different times {multiple personality}. People can have several personalities, typically caused by prolonged and harsh early childhood sexual abuse {multiple personality disorder} (MPD). People create second personality that does not know first personality and that feels no pain or believes pain is happening to someone else. Personalities have separate memories, and personalities have amnesia for the others. One personality can know about other one and know its memories, and that personality is present even when the other is directing body. Perhaps, people do not actually have multiple personalities but are only deceiving themselves [Hacking, 1995] [Schreiber, 1973].
People can behave as if they do not have memories {fugue, memory}, as in sleepwalking trances and post-hypnotic suggestions.
People can behave as if they do not have memories {hysterical amnesia}, as in sleepwalking trances and post-hypnotic suggestions.
People can behave as if they do not know who or where they are {hysterical dissociation}, as in sleepwalking trances and post-hypnotic suggestions.
6-Psychology-Defense Mechanism
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