When daydreaming becomes maladaptive: phenomenological and psychoanalytic perspectives.

Maladaptive daydreaming (MD) is the excessive employment of immersive daydreaming characterized by highly absorbing fantasy experiences that become a preferred focus of consciousness at the expense of living in the real world. Active dissociative processes like depersonalization and derealization, i...

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Published in:	Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 319 - 339
Main Authors:	Chefetz, Richard A., Soffer-Dudek, Nirit, Somer, Eli
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2023
Subjects:	Creative ability Shame Psychoanalysis Fantasy (Psychology) Dissociative disorders
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