Ideational-Affective Dissociation

Ideation disfluent affective psychopathy, also called affective dissociation, is a disorder in which a person's mental and affective processes are separated; in other words, a person cannot think clearly if these emotions negatively influence his thinking. It is a fairly rare disorder, usually occurring in children and adolescents, and is diagnosed when there are significant clinical abnormalities and obvious deviations from the average level of mental functioning. In childhood, symptoms of affective-dissociative