Disassociation can be a useful thing to be able to do, sometimes. Under certain circumstances you can be better at dealing with dangerous, stressful situations, for example.
It's generally maladaptive but there's a reason the brain does it.
It's generally maladaptive but there's a reason the brain does it.
I'm mainly talking about stuff like: the maximum age supposedly being 6–9, the strict separation into "ANPs"/"EPs"/etc, and stuff like that, being unsupported at best. I do think disorganized attachment itself is one of the more plausible theories for how structural dissociation happens, but I generalize it more to any incompatible information instead.