Affect isolation
As affect insulation or isolation from affective a is a defense mechanism , respectively. The process says that an experience or behavior is not forgotten, but by being suppressed it loses its emotional content or its associative connections with other thoughts or with the rest of the individual's existence. In a similar way, the affect content of an idea, etc., which falls prey to repression, can be lost.
Examples
A patient knows his serious illness in detail because he B. studied by reading specialist books and discussed in detail with the doctor. Yet he talks about it without any expression of affects .
Apparently conscious behavior that is supposed to convey self-control is sometimes an expression of affect isolation. In this case the patient says "I know how badly I am injured and I know how it happened, but I don't mind!"
In the same way, a person can talk about a bad incident or similar idea that affects a third party as if it was none of his business.
Disease model
Affect isolation is a mechanism that can lead to the development of dispositional diseases. Through affect isolation, the willingness to be motivated to act can dwindle. The effects of a split-off affect can favor the occurrence of a functional syndrome or vegetative dysfunction . They are called the affect equivalent .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thure von Uexküll u. a. (Ed.): Psychosomatic Medicine. 3. Edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-541-08843-5 , p. 1137.
- ↑ Stavros Mentzos : Neurotic Conflict Processing. Introduction to the psychoanalytic theory of neuroses, taking into account more recent perspectives. Kindler, Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 1992, ISBN 3-596-42239-6 , p. 64.
- ^ Thure von Uexküll: Basic questions of psychosomatic medicine. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1963, p. 177 ff. Chap. "The area of affects and moods and the area of motives and actions"