Association Break (Blocking)

1. In psychiatry, a sudden loss of thought or cessation of speech. A loss of thoughts, accompanied by a feeling that the thought has flown out of the head, is one of the symptoms of schizophrenia. Stopping speech can be a consequence of a break in thoughts or arise as a result of mechanical obstacles to the continuation of speech, for example, due to stuttering.

2. Insufficient response to an event or someone's train of thought due to unpleasant associations associated with it.

1. In psychiatry, a sudden loss of thought or cessation of speech. A loss of thoughts, accompanied by a feeling that the thought has flown out of the head, is one of the symptoms of schizophrenia. Stopping speech can be a consequence of a break in thoughts or arise as a result of mechanical obstacles to the continuation of speech, for example, due to stuttering.

2. Insufficient response to an event or someone's train of thought due to unpleasant associations associated with it.

**Breaks of associations in psychology**

According to Zeigarnik B.V., Association in psychology is a combination of any two mental phenomena in which one of them (a stronger phenomenon) causes another, weaker one, and after the stronger one ceases to act, the latter continues to be in the sphere consciousness, remaining inferior and underdeveloped. The source of such “underdevelopment” in a number of cases is the contradiction between a strong and a weak process. This contradiction can manifest itself both unconsciously, which manifests itself in the waking state (when the sleeper sees a dream), and consciously. The cessation of certain associations is a consequence of the emergence of new, strong associations. At the same time, a certain, seemingly extinct connection is inhibited, but it has no ways of expression. Stopping speech is possible not only when the sequence of thoughts suddenly breaks off and the utterance is lost, but also when the thought continues and represents a painful stream of obsessive ideas - as in phobias, obsessive thoughts. After conscious correction of such obsessive experiences, the patient is able to pronounce his speech and then has time to comprehend it. When the patient does not ask me questions, but repeats monotonously endlessly, I can tell that he is busy stopping the chain of obsessive associations; his mental activity is unconscious