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Thank you for your simple answer that perfectly solves the problem as I asked. Now will you mind if I ask you the question that actually I thought would be clear from your answer?

From my reading of some parts of Dr. Erickson's work I have an impression that our psychological existence is composed of experiential learnings from the interaction of our senses and the reality, and an association network amongst them in the form of a mental set of experiences. This conscious mental set acts as a frame of reference upon which we perceive the world and thus controls to some extent our further experiences. Certain experiences of this set are loosely associated and get easily and sometimes automatically dissociated to fall into the unconscious - for example what we did just before taking our last dinner, while some tightly associated experiences, when become source of psychological disorder, can only be dissociated with therapist's active effort.

Regarding this dissociation Dr. Erickson illustrated with many examples how he builds associational network within the unconscious that at a suitable moment replaces a part of conscious set to form a new frame of reference and reality orientation. You also, previously in this forum, gave a method of treating PTSD by allowing the subject to watch a self-representation experiencing the situation and thus dissociating the traumatic emotional experience from its context, which clearly indicates your extraordinary skill as a therapist. But, to me, these examples appear to be complex - not easy to understand and inimitable, may be because therapy involves complex situations and complex procedures.

It would be wonderful if, in some simple experimental situation, we could actively dissociate an experience from another similar one step by step. But if you think some other example can make me understand the dissociation process better will you please tell me that? Also I will be very grateful to you if you kindly point out any mistake in my understanding.

Thanking you,
Chayan Das

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Re:More Active , by Steve Lankton, 02/26/04 Dissociation During Induction, by C. Das, 04/11/04 Re:Dissociation During Induction, by Steve Lankton, 04/16/04 Suggestibility!, by C. Das, 05/22/04

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