Sentence:  While other conditions might be even more effective in bringing about a change from immobility to mobility in Kohnstamm reactivity , it is our hypothesis that all such conditions would have as a common factor the capacity to induce an attitude in the subject which enabled him to <WSD>divorce</WSD> himself temporarily from feelings of responsibility for his behavior . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  part; cease or break association with