Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave — Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
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Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leaves a large part of the personality unaffected by the trauma.

— Bessel A. van der Kolk, Psychological Trauma
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