1931 Dissociation, the compartmentalization of experience, identity, memory, perception, and motor function, challenges many comfortable assumptions. Dissociative phenomena are often stark, extreme, and vivid. Memory for an entire period of time during which one was conscicous seems 1st.
Identities shift between apparent opposites.
Pain is ignored. Trauma victims transform the experience and report floating above their injured bodies. These are hard questions. It has been observed in the anthropological literature that there are three basic parts to healing rituals. First, the person becomes aware of being in a state of disease and seeks help from a healer of some kind.