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Originally Posted by Elysium3006
Well...i've never read the book or seen the movie....but I think that what VPowers was getting at maybe was that it MEANT SOMETHING TO HER and it SPOKE TO HER on a level that helped her identify with herself and her disorder.
Even further, I do believe she stated that "it COULD be viewed as a dissociative event".
Amandalouise....I'm not sure what Psych classes or text books you have been reading? Maybe the ones from the 1950's? However...fantasy, whether by an adult OR a child, is considered to be a healthy form of DISSOCIATION that EVERYONE experiences and uses throughout their lives to cope with troublesome issues and provide stimulation to our own senses. Fantasy can become pathological when reality testing is no longer intact...such as with Narcissistic folks, but Fantasy is now being considered a sense of dissociating without the extreme alterations in the integrative functions of consciousness!! If it were to be placed on the continuum of dissociation, it might be placed in/around the extreme left.
Thank you again for reminding us that not everyone fits between the pages of a psychology book, or follows the syllabus of a psych class!!
Oh....and here is a link to one particular Psychological study that discusses the links between Dissociation, Fantasy and Fantasy Proneness. It's quite recent...(2005), and very interesting!!
http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=4534
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Thank you. it is hard to share if people take you so literally. we agree w/wpower we sad if what we say hurt her by making other made. thank you for helping us see we not alone. we been hurt so much lately that some of us stoped trying to talk to others. we only wright what we know about.
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