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dissociative
[disóuʃièitiv]
선동하는
분리되는

사람들을 분류하는 방법은 많다.

그 가운데 현재 삶에 만족 (성공했다는 부류)하는 사람과

그 반대로 현재에 하는 일 (삶의 형편)에 불만과 불평을 하는 사람이 있다.

또 다른 분류의 방법도 있다.

그들의 현재와 과거가 연결되는 것을 자랑스럽게 여기는 사람과

헌재 성공했든 그렇지 않든 과거와 결별하고 싶은 사람들이다.

대부분의 사람은 현재의 삶에 만족 못하는 편이다.

Most of people whether they are satistied with their present lives or not,

they triy to DISSOCIATE themselves form their past.

대부분의 사람들은 그들이 현재의 삶에 만족하든지 아니건

그들은 그들의 과거와 자신들을 분리하려고 노력한다.

I am onf of them.

나도 그들 가운데 하나다.

과거를 지우고 싶은 경우는 또 있다.

Wanting a more positive life,

A woman named Isebella would like to to DISSICIATE herself from any negative people

by only surrounding herself with positive people

to live a more positive life.

이사벨라라고 이름하는 이사벨라는 

더 낳은 긍정적 삶을 살기 위해

적극적 인물들에 싸여있으면서 

그 어느 부정적 사람로부터 자신은 분리시키고 싶다.

So am I.

나 역시 그렇다.

A church leader partticulraly a pastor make an effort to DISSOCIATE two events in his mind.

어느 교회 지도자 특히 목사는

그의 마음에 있는 두 가지 사건과 분리시키려고  애쓰고 있다.

It is one of my shames

그것은 내 부끄러운 가운데 하나다

 She tried to dissociate the two events in her mind.

Consciousness
Reviewed by Psychology Today Staff

What Is Consciousness?
The sense that you are experiencing something—that, in a nutshell, is consciousness.

* Dissociative disorders-A group of mental disorders in which dissociation is a prominent symptom.

Behaviorisms is used to treat dissociative disorders.

Dissociative fugue is when a person’s mind detaches from reality, causing a state of temporary memory loss.

Patients with dissociative disorders have a high rate of self-mutilation.

sudden and unexpected shifts in mood – for example, feeling very sad for no reason

Wanting a more positive life, the woman would dissociate herself from any negative people

by only surrounding herself with positive people.

feeling disconnected from yourself

She tried to dissociate herself from her past.

The Socialists wanted to dissociate themselves with the republican government, which was losing its strength and unity.

• Most mental health professionals believe that the underlying cause of dissociative disorders is chronic trauma in childhood.

 She tried to dissociate herself from the bigotry in her past.

편

Do you know what a dissociative fugue state is

 She tried to dissociate the two events in her mind.

 It is getting harder for the president to dissociate himself from the scandal.

a mental disorder, as multiple personality, characterized by sudden temporary alteration in consciousness, identity, or motor behavior.

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The perceived sensation of pain that you know as heartburn, the smell that draws you to a steak on the grill, the sight of magenta streaked across the sky at sunset—all are instances of conscious experience.

And all are inherently subjective in nature, containing more than purely physical information.

In the world of science and philosophy, such blips of experience are known as qualia, and they are the content of consciousness.

Contents
The Mystery of Consciousness

States of Consciousness
The Conscious Mind vs. the Unconscious Mind
The Mystery of Consciousness

One of the great mysteries of science is how the physical molecules we humans are made of—the same things everything else in the universe is made of—give rise to the mental state of awareness (and, hopefully, understanding) of what is going on around us and, to a considerable degree, inside our own bodies and minds. (The “how” of consciousness has been dubbed “the easy problem” of consciousness.)

Even more puzzling is why we have such awareness. (This is the so-called hard problem of consciousness.)

Philosophers have been trying to figure out what consciousness is and what grand purpose it serves since Socrates strode the streets of Athens.

Over time, as science moved from explaining or understanding the objective world of things to the inner world of knowing and feeling, neurologists and neuroscientists have joined the quest to understand the nature of subjective experience.

It may be that no one will know why consciousness exists until physicists can explain why the universe exists—or scientists understand the relationship between the mind and the body.

Where does consciousness come from?
There is no one brain process creating consciousness.

Rather, it arises from a symphony of brain processes piecing together aspects of what our senses record internally (interoception) and externally and signal to the brain.

But, in just one of the many conundrums and ironies of consciousness, many of the processes of consciousness work outside our awareness.

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What causes consciousness to arise?
Thought to arise in some still-unknown way through the actions of neurons in the brain, consciousness is a mark of awareness of one’s self, including one’s body, as well as a reflection of capacity for engagement with the world. And although it doesn’t itself play an active role in determining behavior, it is a requirement for much human behavior. It is also a requirement for health and well-being.

States of Consciousness
Consciousness naturally varies in degree, and there are healthy as well as pathological variations in degree of consciousness. Sleep is a necessary alteration in conscious, and dream sleep is such a bizarre alteration of consciousness no one has figured out yet what it is.

Blows to the body can impair consciousness by interrupting the transmission of nerve signals or blood flow to the brain.

Sleep is a perfectly healthy—and necessary—state characterized by a lack of consciousness. Consuming too much alcohol (or other poisons) can induce a stupor, a state of unconsciousness in which mental, physical, and sensory functions are impaired; no information registers.

The state of flow, usually felt as extremely pleasurable, is marked by such highly concentrated awareness that it blots out awareness of self and everything else but the object of focus.

What kinds of disorders can alter consciousness?
Disorders of the brain, such as psychosis, can influence states of consciousness and the content of consciousness. Psychological trauma can alter consciousness.

In addition, dissociative disorders, often experienced as a sense of disconnection from one’s surroundings, disrupt the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, perception, motor control, and behavior.

They generally occur in the aftermath of acute stress or trauma, often as a protection from emotional injury.

dissociate (v.)

1610s (implied in dissociated) "sever the association or connection of," especially "cut off from society," from Latin dissociatus, past participle of dissociare "to separate from companionship, disunite, set at variance," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + sociare "to join," from socius "companion, ally," from PIE *sokw-yo-, suffixed form of root *sekw- (1) "to follow."

Attested from 1540s as a past-participle adjective meaning "separated." Dissociated in psychology (1890) was "characterized by mental disjunction," hence dissociated personality (1905) "pathological state in which two or more distinct personalities exist in the same person."

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dis- 

word-forming element of Latin origin meaning 1. "lack of, not" (as in dishonest); 2. "opposite of, do the opposite of" (as in disallow); 3. "apart, away" (as in discard), from Old French des- or directly from Latin dis- "apart, asunder, in a different direction, between," figuratively "not, un-," also "exceedingly, utterly." Assimilated as dif- before -f- and to di- before most voiced consonants.

The Latin prefix is from PIE *dis- "apart, asunder" (source also of Old English te-, Old Saxon ti-, Old High German ze-, German zer-). The PIE root is a secondary form of *dwis- and thus is related to Latin bis "twice" (originally *dvis) and to duo, on notion of "two ways, in twain" (hence "apart, asunder").

In classical Latin, dis- paralleled de- and had much the same meaning, but in Late Latin dis- came to be the favored form and this passed into Old French as des-, the form used for compound words formed in Old French, where it increasingly had a privative sense ("not"). In English, many of these words eventually were altered back to dis-, while in French many have been altered back to de-. The usual confusion prevails.

As a living prefix in English, it reverses or negatives what it is affixed to. Sometimes, as in Italian, it is reduced to s- (as in spend, splay, sport, sdain for disdain, and the surnames Spencer and Spence).

*sekw- (1)

Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to follow."

It forms all or part of: associate; association; consequence; consequent; dissociate; ensue; execute; extrinsic; intrinsic; obsequious; persecute; persecution; prosecute; pursue; second (adj.) "next after first;" second (n.) "one-sixtieth of a minute;" sect; secundine; segue; sequacious; sequel; sequence; sequester; sociable; social; society; socio-; subsequent; sue; suit; suite; suitor; tocsin.

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit sacate "accompanies, follows;" Avestan hacaiti, Greek hepesthai "to follow;" Latin sequi "to follow, come after," secundus "second, the following;" Lithuanian seku, sekti "to follow;" Old Irish sechim "I follow."

Can consciousness be manipulated?
Consciousness can also be intentionally manipulated. By actively focusing attention on one’s breath, for example, meditation can so effectively shift the burden of awareness, especially away from distressing thoughts (a form of internal information), that it is often deployed therapeutically.

Deliberately diminishing awareness with anesthetics (without sensibility or perception) enables doctors to repair the human body. At the opposite extreme, psychedelic agents magnify the inputs to awareness, and the changes in consciousness they can catalyze also can have therapeutic value for an array of mental health disorders.

The Conscious Mind vs. the Unconscious Mind
Most mental processes operate outside of conscious awareness. That doesn’t mean that the brain isn’t taking in information or analyzing it. It is, and a classic example is depth perception. Another type of unconscious mental process is motor programming—say, all the neural processes that enable you to move your jaws, lips, and tongue to produce different speech sounds. Unconscious processes contribute to our capacity for consciousness.

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