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Differentiating dissociation and repression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

John Morton
John Morton*
Affiliation:
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, LondonWC1N 3AR, United Kingdom
*
j.morton@ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract:

Now that consciousness is thoroughly out of the way, we can focus more precisely on the kinds of things that can happen underneath. A contrast can be made between dissociation and repression. Dissociation is where a memory record or set of autobiographical memory records cannot be retrieved; repression is where there is retrieval of a record but, because of the current task specification, the contents of the record, though entering into current processing, are not allowed into consciousness. I look at hypnotic amnesia and dissociative identity disorder in relation to this contrast.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , October 2004 , pp. 670 - 671
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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