Dissociative Disorders as Experiences by Children

Overview

The article deals with problems of dissociative processes in child age. Attention is devoted todissociation as a pathological phenomen on of children’s experience which is a part of a defensivereaction a traumatic situation. Such a traumatisation for a child is a hostile directive manipulati-on of one of the parents against the other one, which is spontaneously accepted by the child as anobject of emotional consonance and identification. It mostly occurs in divorce and after divorcesituations, as demonstrated by the presented case-histories. The author tries to describe thesymptoms of dissociation of the experience of these children and possibilities of gaining controlover those situations by psychotherapy.

Key words:
splitting (dissociation), splitting as a mechanism activated by a psychic trauma, trau-