Trauma response where a patient reports shocking details flatly, which Jiang reads as evidence of reality.
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Trauma response where a patient reports shocking details flatly, which Jiang reads as evidence of reality.
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A trauma response where the person is 'not there' and cannot remember the event in detail.
A state where Jiang says the mind stops identifying with the body and experiences events as happening to someone else.
Freud's argument for patient credibility includes uniform details, naive reporting of significant events, and dissociated affect around shocking material.
Trauma can create dissociation, leaving the victim obedient to a handler whose role is not consciously remembered.
He defines elite-admissions dissociative potential as desperation plus insecurity plus willingness to break rules in order to succeed.
Only dissociated, actor-like people can convincingly perform the non-utilitarian passion that Harvard demands from people who are applying for utilitarian reasons.
The school list of leadership virtues is inverted: Jiang says effective historical leaders share unpredictability, high stress tolerance, and lack of empathy.
Dissociation is defined as the mind leaving identification with the body, making the person feel like an observer in a movie and producing unpredictability, stress tolerance, and lack of empathy.
The alleged Egyptian ritual system creates trauma, trauma creates dissociation, and dissociation lets priests program the pharaoh.
Jiang answers the heaven/hell question by defining hell as the life review in which a bad person finally feels the pain they caused others, while heaven is seeing the good one did.
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"Okay, so he says that one thing about this trauma is disassociation, okay? So these patients will reveal details that would shock anyone else,..."
"There are, however, a whole number of other things that vouch for the reality of infantile sexual scenes. In the first place, there is..."
"Okay, so what he's saying is, is it possible there's conspiracy among these patients? Possibly, but they're telling me, they're giving, like, these details...."
"In the second place, patients sometimes describe as harmless events whose significance they obviously do not understand, since they would be bound otherwise to..."
"Okay. It's a good question. Okay? The answer is this. In psychology, what you learn is that when you're traumatized, what happens to you?..."
"Okay? So again, they know all this, okay? They know I'm an average student, and they know that I'm pushy and ambitious. Okay? And..."
"I would need to go make $2 million. If I made $10 million, I would see people around me who had $100 million. I..."
"I said, I don't care. I'm going to get my good grades, and I'm going to get into the Ivy League. I don't need..."
"But what's interesting is Harvard wants that, okay? So in your application, you have to say to Harvard, I have a passion. I will..."
"Because you're basically an actor. Because you're basically an actor. Harvard wants the best actors in the world. They want people to go for,..."
"...to describe all three skills. The word we can use is dissociation. Dissociation just means that your mind is part of your body. When..."
"But in Mesopotamia, it's a desert. And so it's really easy to attack. And therefore, they had centuries of warfare. And that's what kept..."
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