Disassociation In Psychology

Disassociation is a topic that I had never heard about until I began taking Psychology classes. Although it may be assumed that dissociation would be a disorder of disconnecting from situations, disassociation is described as the disconnection between things usually associated with each other. Before the discussion, I had discussed disassociation in previous classes but never in depth. It was always discussed in association to repressed memories. However, the discussion in class and article provided me with an understanding of disassociation that I never knew. While it is common to discuss disassociation in Psychology classes, I never expected to be discussing dissociation in regards to post traumatic stress disorder. In the previous class