Stimulus Deprivation and Overstimulation as Dissociogenic Agents in Postmodern Oppressive Societies

Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 198-212

  Sar, Vedat ^a   Ozturk, Erdinc ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

consciousness; dissociation; oppression; self; society; stimulus

Indexed keywords

ABSTINENCE; ANGER; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; BOREDOM; DENERVATION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EXHAUSTION; EXPECTANCY; FEAR; FLOODING; FUNCTIONAL DISSOCIATION; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IDEOLOGY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LOVE; MASS MEDIUM; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL OVERSTIMULATION; OPPRESSION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REINFORCEMENT; REJUVENATION; RELIGION; RITUAL; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STIMULUS DEPRIVATION; THINKING; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

AUTHORITARIANISM; DEMOCRACY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LEADERSHIP; MACHIAVELLIANISM; MASS MEDIA; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); REALITY TESTING; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL VALUES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TORTURE;

EID: 84874127096     PISSN: 15299732     EISSN: 15299740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2013.724346     Document Type: Article

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