Talk:Emotional detachment

I expanded the article, but I'd like note I'm not a psychologist and wrote most of this from personal knowledge/experience. I'll add some refs and perhaps more expansion after some other eyes review it and it's decided the presentation is proper (i.e. shoult the article be split into two?) Is there a better term for emotional numbing? --DanielCD 19:06, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Same material as 1st def may be covered at Dissociation. Any comments on whether or not the info should be moved there is welcome. --DanielCD 21:51, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Suggestion
It may be worthwhile to add something on the treatment of emotional detachment when it has turned the individual in somebody suffering from too little attachment rather than too much of it 86.152.162.216 21:02, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Bias
This article asserts too strongly subjective opinions on the two definitions being "negative" and "positive" respectively. The entire article needs to be carefully reviewed to remove bias. ~ SotiCoto (talk) 12:19, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

This article seemed to be lacking information and references. I believe it would be stronger with more information specfically on psychophysical numbing. This article by Paul Slovic would be helpful: Slovic, P. "If I look at the mass I will never act": Psychic numbing and genocide. Judgment and Decision Making, 2, 79-95. Damicocar (talk) 21:21, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

In a recent article, Slovic reported that people's ability to detect changes in a psysical stimulus reapidly decrease as the magnitude of the stimulus increases. Slovic, P. "If I look at the mass I will never act": Psychic numbing and genocide. Judgment and Decision Making, 2, 79-95. Lmauri1 (talk) 21:28, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Emotional detachment can arise from several different events. A book I think that would be extremely helpful is The Science of Fear. Here is the citation: Gardner, D. The science of fear. London: Plume. Enjoy! LinziMLB (talk) 02:57, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Removal of Link to German "version"
I have removed the link to the German wikiarticle article Distanzlosigkeit - as that article didn't have anything in common with Emotional detachment
 * Ok, no problem then. Please try to use an edit summary in the future. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 23:41, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

The link to the German wikiarticle article Distanzlosigkeit is wrong. The subject of the liked article is quite the opposite of emotional detachment. Please remove the link. 37.201.246.214 (talk) 00:05, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for telling us. It seems that Addbot removed this link. With friendly regards,  Lova Falk     talk   12:32, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

What mental disorders is emotional detachment present in?
The article doesn't mention them all, but I'm not sure which ones qualify. ¿Dissociative disorders, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, autism spectrum disorders, antisocial personality disorder? 213.109.230.96 (talk) 09:04, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Assertiveness?
This link under "See Also" seems a bit out of place.

The assertiveness article doesn't reference emotional detachment at all and its inclusion here implies that being assertive can cure or prevent emotional detachment, but that doesn't seem quite right due to the complexities involved and the nature of some psychological traumas. If there is evidence to the contrary, it should be cited and expanded upon on this page or that one.

Elabeth (talk) 14:01, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Childhood & Adolescence
This article should have a new section by the title of “Emotional detachment in childhood” or something like that. Can someone please add this? Also emotional detachment is an INABILITY to feel emotion, so can someone also change that? Also look at Reactive attachment disorder and Disinhibited social engagement disorder. - Wzth Regvrds, Ghxstee | Dzscussixn 12:47, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Suggestions for the article
Under the Symptoms heading change the wording regarding antidepressants CAUSING emotional blunting/detachment to say that there is a possible connection. Another suggestion would be to clarify in the opening paragraph that those who use emotional detachment as a coping mechanism show behavioral mechanisms and the other emotional detachment has the symptoms laid out in the article.--Aphill66 (talk) 05:37, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

emotional detachment
how would you act? 2A02:C7F:40EF:9200:59E3:2FA4:D954:4AF4 (talk) 01:44, 27 December 2021 (UTC)