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Pierre Janet & the Breakdown of

Adaptation in Psychological Trauma

Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D., & Onno van der Hart, Ph.D.

American Journal of Psychiatry, 146 (12), December 1989, 1530-1540.

Corresponding authors: Bessel van der Kolk, Psychiatry Department, Boston University Medical School,

and Trauma Center at HRI Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Email: bvanderk@aol.com

Onno van der Hart, Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, Heidelberg 1, 3584 CS

Utrecht, The Netherlands. Phone: +31(30)253-1785; fax +31(30)253-4718; Email: o

“It is not enough to be

aware of a memory that occurs automatically in response to particular current events: it is also necessary

that the personal perception &Eumil;knowsí this image and attaches it to other memories” (26, p. 135).

Dissociation

Janet believed that, under ordinary conditions, awareness of emotions, thoughts, actions, and sensations

related to any particular experience is united in a single consciousness and is under voluntary control.

Successful integration into the memory system depends on the cognitive assessment of new experiences.

Frightening or novel experiences may not fit into existing cognitive schemes; memories of these

experiences then can be split off trom conscious awareness and voluntary control, and fragments of

unintegrated events may later show up as pathological automatisms.

John Blundell

Australian fruitgrower & retailer smashed by Government L, S, F after 20/5/1992