Citation

Ataria Y. Philos. Psychiatr. Psychol. 2016; 23(1): 1-15.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Johns Hopkins University Press)

DOI

10.1353/ppp.2016.0002

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article suggests that, after severe and prolonged trauma (which, for the sake of simplicity, is referred to herein as trauma type II), cognitive resources are depleted and the victim is completely dependent on her persecutor. This, in turn, may cause the victim to develop a feeling of disownership toward the entire body. The central claim made herein is that when disownership toward the entire body becomes fixed/ permanent this can lead, in the long term, to complex posttraumatic stress disorder C-PTSD, a dissociative subtype of PTSD, and to self-harming behavior. The paper examines this issue from theoretical and phenomenological perspectives. © 2016 by The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Language: en

Keywords

Suicide; Beingin-the-world; Complex PTSD; Lack of sense of ownership; Self-harming-behavior; Trauma type II