He also coined the word ' de-affectualization ' to refer to ' emotional numbing ', a frequent complaint amongst patients suffering with the condition.
In 1980, symptoms were limited mainly to dreams, intrusive images, phobias, numbing, difficulty concentrating, irritability, and so on.
There is some distracting repetition and so much detail on the famines that it is almost numbing.
The consequence of the dream experience is emotional numbing and not the cause of the experience or the dream plot.
And indeed, a form of distancing and numbing may be needed in facing the end of life and the impending separation from loved ones.
The crystallization of such a personality style includes psychological constriction, massive numbing, rage, and, in some cases, identification with an aggressive perpetrator.
If the victims did not experience such images, the explanation was that they were in the denial or numbing phase of the traumatic syndrome.
In the psychiatric literature, dissociation is characterized by the victim having subjective experiences of emotional numbing, derealization, depersonalization, and perceptual alterations during the trauma.
