"A preliminary note needs to be made that studying dissociation can itself be dissociating. So, if in the process of reading this paper you find yourself unaccountably "zoning out", "losing consciousness" or going blank, please recognize that as a symptom that you are coming up against what we all need to come up against, and find a place to re-enter the text with your attention fully connected." --Dissociation Dynamics, the Alice Miller Finding and the Social Organization of Torture